Île de la Cité Events - January 2027
January 2027 starts cheap: the first Sunday is free at both monuments, the cathedral holds two Tuesday evenings, and two exhibitions close inside four weeks.
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Organ recital — Thierry Escaich
📅 Tuesday, January 19, 2027, 8.30pm (about 1 hour)
An hour on the great organ for €25, a week before the month's €40 choral evening.
📍 Location: Notre-Dame Cathedral, 6 parvis Notre-Dame
Note: €25, reduced €15.
Lux æterna — Italian Baroque
📅 Tuesday, January 26, 2027, 8.30pm (about 1 hour)
Lotti's Missa pro Defunctis and the Italian Baroque, the night after Zurbarán closes at the Louvre.
📍 Location: Notre-Dame Cathedral, 6 parvis Notre-Dame
Note: €40, €25, reduced €15.
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Free first Sunday — the Sainte-Chapelle and the Conciergerie
📅 Sunday, January 3, 2027
The year's first free Sunday at both monuments — the upper chapel's glass and Marie-Antoinette's cell for nothing.
📍 Location: Both monuments, 10 boulevard du Palais — minutes apart
Note: Free admission is each monument's own published policy — the Sainte-Chapelle lists January, February, March, November and December; the Conciergerie January, February, March and November. Check the day before you travel.
Christmas lights and tree on the parvis
📅 to Wednesday, January 6, 2027
The tree and the lit façade come down on the 6th; the first week of January is the last of it.
📍 Location: Parvis Notre-Dame, place Jean-Paul II
Note: Dates as published by the Paris tourist office and Sortir à Paris; the cathedral has not issued a 2026 lighting notice.
Zurbarán, 1598–1664
📅 Wednesday, October 7, 2026 – Monday, January 25, 2027
Closing on the 25th, so this is the last month of the Spanish painter of bare rooms and single figures.
📍 Location: Musée du Louvre, Hall Napoléon
Note: €22 in France and the EEA, €32 outside it. 9am–6pm, Wednesday and Friday to 9pm, closed Tuesday. Sculpter la couleur is a separate exhibition on the same dates — it is not the same show.
Mary Cassatt, L'indépendante
📅 Tuesday, October 6, 2026 – Sunday, January 31, 2027
The last month of the Orsay's Cassatt — the American who painted the opera box and the nursery with the same attention.
📍 Location: Musée d'Orsay — one RER C stop from Saint-Michel
Note: Open into the final weekend of January; check the museum's hours before a late visit.