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Start from the car park at Fontfroide Abbey.
(S/E) Head towards the entrance to this former Cistercian monastery.
(1) Go through the large gate when it opens (10am) and follow a track until you reach a right-hand bend.
(2) Take the hairpin bend to the left onto a path leading up to the Cross, signposted by a directional sign. You will reach a fork in the path before the final climb.
(3) Head up the path to the right, which winds its way up; it is grassy at first but gradually becomes stony until you reach the Abbey Cross.
(4) After stopping at this spot, which offers a remarkable 360° view, retrace your steps back to the previous fork.
(3) Turn right to follow a path downhill, which leads to an uncultivated field.
(5) Cross it for a few metres before reaching a cross-country track.
(6) Continue along this track to the right, leaving a path on your left, and cross a bridge over the Ruisseau de la Quille, which is very often dry. Continue along the track, ignoring all paths or tracks to the right or left, until, after almost 2 km, you reach a junction with another track of similar width.
(7) Follow it to the right until you reach a junction where you will see a gently sloping path on the right, which you should ignore.
(8) Retrace your steps for a few metres and take the path on the right, which is part of the Via Domitia. This covered path is stony as it follows a stream, but becomes much more pleasant once it leaves the stream. Continue along this path, ignoring another path on the left, until you find a new covered path a little further on to the right.
(9) Follow it, even though it tends to narrow and climb, until it opens out onto an open path.
(10) Join a track called "Chemin de l'Aragnon".
(11) Take this on the right and continue to a crossroads.
(12) Then follow the track, continuing on, which descends into the Combe du Moulin towards the car park at the start. Near the finish, there is another closed gate, which you should go round by veering left to take a small path used by walkers, leading to (S/E).
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