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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 around the church. If there are no spaces, use the car park behind the school at the northern entrance to the village (symbol P on the IGN map).
Signposting: yellow dash + yellow triangle
(S/E) Opposite the main entrance to the church, go around it on the right towards Romorantin. After a half-timbered house on the right, turn right into Traite des Dîmes. At the end of the street, make a right-left zigzag to take Rue de la Haute Jourdaine. The tarmac quickly gives way to a good, stable path that runs alongside the dyke of a pond on the left (you need to climb up onto the grassy dyke to see the pond clearly). The path becomes grassy and shaded.
(1) Walk along the Jourdaine pond on your left. Enter a wood and follow a straight path (south-south-east).
(2) At a crossroads (CR36 sign on the left), turn left. Walk north-east, ignoring several paths branching off to the sides. Leave the woods and continue in the same direction, following a hedge on your left. Cross a road and follow the small road opposite to Jaugeny (sign). Pass a farm on your left and continue north-east on a stable path between a hedge on your left and fenced meadows on your right.
(3) At the crossroads, turn left onto a small road (the only paved road here). You will see the Château de la Ravinière on your right beyond the trees. Cross a road and continue straight ahead on a wide dirt track through the forest, which curves to the right and ends at the edge of forest plots nos. 57 and 58 (forest barrier on the right).
(4) Follow a wide gravel lane to the left. Continue north-northwest, ignoring the side roads (signs saying "Propriété privée" [Private property]). Turn right, then left to go around the Étang de la Borde pond, and stay on the gravel lane.
Yellow dash signpost
(5) At the crossroads, ignore the yellow triangle signpost on the left and turn right onto a grassy path alongside a fenced plot on your left. At the end of the plot, re-enter the forest.
Yellow + red and white markings
(6) At the next junction, turn left (GR®413signpost). Follow a wide path through the forest for about 900m (north-west).
Yellow markings
(7) At a crossroads, turn left onto a narrower path and leave theGR® trail straight ahead. Stay on the main path, which winds through the forest, and ignore any paths branching off to the sides. You will come to a small road; follow it to the left. Pass a shed on the right and then an isolated house on the left, and you will reach a crossroads (visible in the distance opposite the bell tower of the church in Fontaines-en-Sologne).
(8) Continue straight ahead on a small paved road that descends towards the Étang des Roulets. In the woods, follow the pond on your left. Turn right, then left with the road and follow 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 à 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. Pass a farm shed on your left, then a vineyard. Climb slightly with the church in view. When the path turns into tarmac, continue straight ahead. After a few metres, turn left onto the D120 and drive up to the church (S/E).
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