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Start from the church in Fontaines-en-Sologne, at the junction of the D119 and D120 departmental roads. Parking spaces are available all around the church. If there are no spaces, use the car park behind the school, at the northern entrance to the village (marked ‘P’ on the IGN map).
Markings: yellow dash + Yellow Triangle
(S/E) Facing the main entrance to the church, go round it to the right towards Romorantin. After a half-timbered house on the right-hand side, turn right into the Traite des Dîmes. At the end of the street, make a zigzag turn to take the Rue de la Haute Jourdaine. The tarmac quickly gives way to a good, compacted track running alongside the embankment of a pond on the left (you need to climb onto the grassy embankment to get a good view of the pond). The track becomes grassy and shaded.
(1) Walk alongside the Jourdaine pond on your left. Enter a wood and follow a straight path (south-southeast).
(2) At a junction (signpost ‘CR36’ on the left), turn left. Walk north-east, ignoring several side paths. Leave the woods and continue in the same direction, following a hedge on your left. Cross a road and follow the small Jaugeny road opposite (signposted). Pass a farmhouse on your left and continue north-east along a hard-packed track between a hedge on your left and fenced meadows on your right.
(3) At the crossroads, turn left onto a small road (this is the only tarmac road here). You will see the Château de la Ravinière on the right beyond the trees. Cross a road and continue straight ahead along a wide, compacted track through the forest, which curves to the right to reach the boundary of forest plots nos. 57 and 58 (forest gate on the right).
(4) Follow a wide gravel path to the left. Walk north-north-west, ignoring the side paths (signs reading “Private Property”). Take a right-hand bend followed by a left-hand bend to go round the Étang de la Borde, and stay on the gravel path.
Yellow dash markings
(5) At the junction, ignore the Yellow Triangle markings leading left and turn right onto a grassy path running alongside a fenced-off plot on your left. At the end of the plot, enter the forest again.
Yellow + red and white dash markings
(6) At the next junction, turn left (GR®®413signpost). Follow (north-west) a wide path through the forest for about 900m.
Yellow dash markings
(7) At a junction, turn left onto a narrower path and let theGR®® continue straight ahead. Stay on the main path, which winds through the forest, and ignore the side paths. You’ll come out onto a small road; follow it to the left. Pass a shed on the right then an isolated house on the left, and reach a crossroads (view in the distance opposite of the bell tower of the church at Fontaines-en-Sologne).
(8) Continue straight ahead along a small tarmac road that descends towards the Étang des Roulets. In the woodland, walk along the left-hand side of the pond. Turn right then left with the road and walk along another pond on your left.
Markings: yellow dash + Yellow Triangle
(9) After the pond, note a path marked with a Yellow Triangle coming from the left and continue along the road. After a few metres and before a “Stop 150m” sign, leave the road when it turns right and take a grassy path on the left that runs alongside a hedge on the right-hand side. Pass a farm shed on your left, then a vineyard. Climb slightly with the church clearly in view. When the path gives way to tarmac, continue straight on. After a few metres, turn left onto the D120 and head back up to the church (S/E).
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