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Park on the plane-tree-lined avenue La Promenade in Buzet-sur-Tarn, directly opposite the bridge crossing the Tarn.
No signposting until Roquemaure.
(S/E) Head north/north-east towards the suspension bridge and cross the Tarn. At the end of the bridge, at the junction with the Route de Mézens, head straight on along the track. Leave this track shortly afterwards on the right onto the Chemin de la Sauzière (wooden sign) and continue through the fields. Walk alongside an orchard to reach a crossroads by the Ruisseau de la Sauzière.
(1) Take the left-hand path to reach another crossroads at the hairpin bend.
(2) Keep left and continue the climb, ignoring all the paths branching off to the right and left. Walk through the woods, following roughly the crest of the ridge, then begin a short descent to reach a crossroads with four perpendicular paths.
(3) Turn left towards the north-west to follow a wide circular loop through the undergrowth that passes beneath Les Huttes and gently turns south, running some distance alongside the Vermas stream. You will then reach the Pont de Vermas.
(4) Facing a house on the other side of the road, turn right onto the D22. Climb slightly for a few hundred metres, pass an aerial and immediately afterwards you’ll come to a crossroads.
(5) Turn right onto the Route de Buzet, continuing slightly uphill through open farmland. You’ll approach Roquemaure and its Château Latour at a multi-way junction.
Yellow markings (sporadic) to Mézens
(6) Turn right onto a grassy path crossing the fields. At the next crossroads, turn left into the woods. Descend gently through the undergrowth and join the path leading to the hamlet of Blanc.
(7) Turn right onto the path marked in yellow and indicated on a wooden sign: Sentier vallons et forêts. Descend and cross the Ruisseau des Clots, then follow the Ruisseau de Vermas. You’ll come out at a sharp bend.
(8) Turn left at this sharp bend, continue along a long, gently ascending and largely open meadow, following the ridge. Pass the pretty Font Jean farm and continue at a leisurely pace through the green countryside. Approach the Mézens road at a crossroads of paths in the woodland.
(9) Take the left-hand path, head down into the woods and arrive at the highest point (altitude 247) at a place called Malpas.
(10) Turn left and continue descending steeply towards the south-east. You will reach the cemetery at the entrance to Mézens.
(11) Continue to the right on the D35. At a wayside shrine, rejoin the Grande Rue and turn right. Walk past the church and close to the castle. Continue to the right along the Route de Buzet and follow the houses to reach the junction with the Chemin des Vignes.
(12) Turn right onto it and follow it to the end.
(13) Continue straight ahead onto the path that follows it, walk along the edge of the woods and return to the initial junction you passed on the way there.
(1) Turn left and retrace your steps along the path you took on the way out to reach the car park on the avenue of plane trees on the Promenade de Buzet-sur-Tarn (S/E).
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