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Departure from the car park below the Chapelle Saint-Roch, at the corner of Rue l'Avocat and Allée des Amandiers.
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(S/E) Leave the car park via its access road, Rue l'Avocat, and follow it to the left and uphill. Pass by the chapel (marked by a cross), come out onto a road and follow it to the left. At the stop sign, turn right onto Rue des Frères Braissant. At the next intersection, continue straight ahead on Chemin de la Pallière towards the cemetery. Stay on the right-hand pavement and ignore the dead ends on the left.
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(1) At the intersection near the basketball court, continue straight ahead. Cross Chemin de la Trésorerie on the right-hand side and stay on the left-hand side of the road. Descend gently and cross Allée des Cigales on the left. Leave Puyloubier and take the right-hand side of the road. Pass the stele of a wine estate belonging to the Foreign Legion (Legio) on your right and you will soon come to a fork at the end of the tarmac road.
(2) Follow the track on the right and descend gently under the pine trees. Ignore a turn-off on the right and walk along the right-hand side of a sort of wasteland, then a vineyard and finally a fenced-off plot of young vines. Ignore the access to an isolated house on the right and you will soon reach an intersection.
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(3) Turn right and immediately ignore a path on the left (not shown on the map). At a crossroads, go straight ahead on a tarmac track and walk along the wall of an estate on your left. Descend gently to a T-junction (there is a wayside shrine on the corner; on the left, there is access to the Institution des invalides de la Légion Étrangère).
(4) Follow a small road to the right. Pass an oratory on the left and stay on the road.
(5) After a "Military Zone" sign on the right-hand side and before a sign on the left-hand side, turn left onto a path that descends (be careful to spot this turn). At the bottom, turn right. At the T-junction, turn left and walk along a vineyard on your right. Follow the path as it winds its way along, still with the vineyard on your right.
(6) Ignore a path on the left and walk along a vineyard on your left. At the next intersections, go straight ahead on the main marked path, still among the vineyards. On a downhill stretch, the path gives way to tarmac. You will come to a small road (D57d) and follow it to the right.
(7) Take the first road on the left towards the waste collection centre. Pass the centre and a water treatment plant and continue along a gravel track. Walk between the vineyards, heading south-east. You will reach an intersection near a birch grove some distance to the left.
(8) Turn right onto a wide dirt track. Ignore a vineyard track on the left. At the next fork, keep left. Join a small road and follow it to the right.
(9) Shortly before a junction with another road (the D12), turn left onto a grassy path lined with reed fencing on the right-hand side (the purple line on the 1:25,000 map is not updated here). Walk along the left-hand side of a vineyard and then an olive grove. At the end of the path, turn right and carefully cross the D12. Follow the road to the left and take a small bridge over a stream.
(10) At the end of the bridge, take a path on the right. Walk along an area of heath on your left. At a fork (not shown on the map), turn left onto a path, still walking along the heath. You will come out onto a wider path. Follow it to the right towards the village of Puyloubier.
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(11) At the next crossroads, continue straight ahead (ignore the blue markings with dashes on the left). At the fork shortly afterwards (oratory), turn left. Follow the path that winds through the vineyards and climbs very gently. Join a small road and follow it to the left. Walk alongside the Puyloubier cooperative winery on your left.
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(12) At the crossroads, turn right onto Avenue du Chemin Neuf. After about 30 metres, when the avenue turns left, take a right into a lane (not shown on IGN maps) and walk along a car park below on the right. Ignore a staircase going up on the left and one going down on the right. Further on, ignore another staircase on the right and climb the staircase opposite. Continue along a narrow street (Allée des Amandiers) and, at the end on the right, you will find the car park where you started (S/E).
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