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Follow the yellow markings.
(S/E) The route begins at Seuilly Abbey in the centre of the village. Leaving the car park, turn right at the Y-junction with the cross still on your right and then right again at the T-junction. Head for the museum car park.
(1) After the car park, turn left and follow the road up the hill. At the Cinais cemetery, stop to admire the beautiful view over the Seuilly plateau. To the south, admire the Château du Coudray Montpensier, built in the 14th and 15th centuries. To the east, you will also see the recently restored Royal Fortress of Chinon. Descend the road towards the village of Cinais. Pass in front of the 19th-century Saint-Hilaire Church, which replaced an older building ransacked by Protestants in 1562. Then climb opposite, at your own pace, the Chemin de la Garenne, lined with houses carved into the tuffeau stone, called caves demeurantes or troglodytic dwellings. Turn left at the T-junction.
(2) At the three-way junction, turn left. You will arrive at the Camp des Romains, which is actually a site dating from the Iron Age (1st millennium BC) and was, until its demolition, a unique megalithic complex in the Chinon region.
(3) Go around the oppidum, leave a path on your left and turn left onto the next one.
Turn right through the heather. There are no fewer than 25 different species. Signs provide information about the fauna, flora and the many mysteries surrounding the area.
The path slopes to the left. Continue along the plateau, heading west towards the highest point in the commune at an altitude of 110 metres, until you reach a wide path. You will pass through woods consisting mainly of oak and chestnut trees and cereal fields.
(4) Continue straight ahead and follow the edge of the woods. Leave the path on the right and continue in the same direction, then enter the Bois de Bourg to reach a T-junction.
(5) Turn left at a right angle. Leaving the woods, walk between cultivated fields and the edge of the woods. Cut across a path and turn left 200 metres further on to reach a vineyard. Turn right and then left again, climb up the Coteaux de Seuilly opposite you, and you will see the magnificent Château du Coudray Montpensier rising up in front of you once more.
(6) At the second road, turn right to descend the hillside, continue straight ahead at the intersection and you will return to the abbey (S/E).
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