Above the Aups via The Peirière

A beautiful walk through various landscapes, olive trees, impressive stone walls, a pine forest, caves and cave chapels.

Technical sheet

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A Aups walk posted on 26/06/15 by LB_Neil. Last update : 03/12/19
  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 7.13 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 2h 35 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Easy

  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 196 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 188 m

  • ▲
    Highest point: 668 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 513 m
  • ⚐
    District: Aups (83630)
  • ⚑
    Start/End: N 43.62957° / E 6.225037°
  • ❏
    IGN map(s): Ref. 3443OT

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Description

Park on Avenue Victor Maria, near the Notre-Dame de la Délivrance chapel. Head to the north-west down this avenue.

(1) After 200 m at the crossing, turn right just before the bridge on the small paved road, Chemin de la Grave. Go due north for about 400 m.

(2) At the fork, take Chemin de la Peirière to to the left and continue on it for about 1 km to the north-east to a crossroads.

(3) Turn right on Chemin de la Croix des Pins, continue on this path past the Estré equestrian shelter.

(4) At a tank, make a sharp right along the path with Yellow markings and follow it.

(5) At the fork, turn left onto the forest track, signposted with a yellow arrow Yellow indicating “Croix des Pins”. Continue south to a junction.

(6) Leave the Yellow markings and head to the left and then turn right in the direction signposted as “Citerne 25m3".

(7) At the tank, take the left path and follow it for 1 km.

(8) In a wide turn, take a small path down to the right at a small cairn indicated by yellow markings on a tree (look out for the the start of the trail). Continue on this narrow path. Then turn right uphill on the path with Yellow markings to the St. Magdalene Caves.
Continue on the trail through the caves and the cave chapel, and a little further to the right the Sainte-Trinité Chapel.
At the end of the paved road opposite follow the trail. Turn left onto Chemin des Devansaux.
Arrive on Avenue Victor Maria.

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 517 m
  2. 1 : km 0.23 - alt. 514 m - Chemin de la Grave
  3. 2 : km 0.6 - alt. 523 m - Fork
  4. 3 : km 1.81 - alt. 614 m - Crossroads
  5. 4 : km 2.93 - alt. 620 m - Water tank
  6. 5 : km 3.46 - alt. 623 m - Fork
  7. 6 : km 4.37 - alt. 658 m - Junction at marker 643
  8. 7 : km 4.52 - alt. 641 m - Water tank
  9. 8 : km 5.51 - alt. 667 m - Starting point of the trail
  10. S/E : km 7.13 - alt. 517 m

Useful Information

2.5 hours of actual walking, but more like 5 hours accounting for photo stops, snacks and visiting the caves.

Always stay careful and alert while following a route. Visorando and the author of this walk cannot be held responsible in the event of an accident during this route.

Reviews and comments

4.8 / 5
Based on 2 reviews

Clarity of route description
5 / 5
Clarity of route map
5 / 5
Walk interest
4.5 / 5
Georgia Martin
Georgia Martin

Overall rating : 5 / 5

Date of walk : 06/01/19
Clarity of route description : ★★★★★ Very good
Clarity of route map : ★★★★★ Very good
Walk interest : ★★★★★ Very good

A really lovely walk - we went very slowly with lots of stops and it took about 3h in which time we saw two cars and no people! Much recommendee

Herbert62
Herbert62
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Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of walk : 31/12/16
Clarity of route description : ★★★★★ Very good
Clarity of route map : ★★★★★ Very good
Walk interest : ★★★★☆ Good

A pleasant and easy walk along olive groves with nice views of the village and the distant mountains and the caves at the end of the walk as a dessert. The trail is wide and not really steep at any stage, except for the final descend back to Aups along the caves, which is sligthly rougher and steeper but still relatively easy. We did this walk above Aups after having done the neighbouring Veris trail at Bauduen a couple of days before with the same group of 5 (I refer to my description of that walk). In comparison we much preferred the Veris trail at Bauduen above this walk, which, admittedly may also be partly due to the clouded sky above Aups on the day. The Aups trail is slightly easier and shorter. However, when in doubt which of these two walks to take, our advice would be to take the Veris trail at Bauduen.
Herbert

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