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Park your car in the small car park in front of Cestayrols Town Hall.
(S/E) With the town hall on your left, take the D1 for about 200 metres, slightly downhill, then leave the road and turn onto a path on the left (signposted Chemin du Lavoir).
(1) Pass between two houses, then in front of the old restored wash house on your left, and walk uphill alongside a beautiful park.
You will come out onto a small tarmac road where you should turn right. Walk for about 150 metres, then turn right again at the corner of the last house.
(2) The path passes at the foot of an old dovecote and leads to a crossroads. Turn slightly right (signposted "Sentier des Coteaux"). At the crossroads shortly after, go straight ahead (signposted Lincarque). The path descends, crosses a small stream and then climbs again to join the D1, just at the Lincarque road sign.
(3) Turn left and continue to the roundabout. Turn right onto the D17, leaving the tarmac path on your left that leads to Château de Lacroux and, shortly afterwards, the Route de la Couliche on your right. 100 metres further on, just before a house on your right, turn left onto a wide path.
(4) At the first fork, turn right and at the second fork, turn left downhill. The path quickly joins the tarmac road below. Turn right and follow the road to a crossroads.
(5) Turn right again and cross the small bridge. The road climbs and joins another road. Turn left (cross opposite). Pass a road on the right and then, about 50 metres further on, turn right at a house, after another white cross on the embankment.
(6) The wide path descends, crosses a small bridge, then climbs again to reach the hamlet of Le Pouget. Turn left after the first house (sign for Sentier des 4 Châteaux). Pass a first road on the right. At the second road, turn left and leave the Sentier des 4 Châteaux, which continues straight ahead.
(7) At the crossroads, turn right onto the D6 towards Cahuzac-sur-Vère (road sign). Follow the D6, passing a first road opposite and then a second on the left towards Gatens.
(8) 50 metres further on, just before the D6 signpost, leave the road and take an uphill path on the right. At the top of the hill, turn left. The path enters a small wood, turns right and then disappears.
(9) Go to the edge of the woods, turn right along a field of alfalfa and descend slightly to come out onto a path opposite that runs alongside a vineyard.
(10) Cross a small ditch, turn left and walk along the vineyard to reach a wide dirt track. Turn left and walk uphill to reach a small tarmac road.
(11) Turn right and follow this road for about 800 metres.
(12) At the crossroads, turn right (sign for Fongaillo). Pass the entrance to the house on your left and continue straight ahead. The path passes a small ruined hut, descends and then climbs again to join a tarmac road next to a beautiful house on your left. Turn right onto the road and continue for about 150 metres.
(13) Turn left (sign for Arzac and statue of the Virgin Mary). Follow this road and pass the small cemetery, ignoring the small road on the right. You will come to a four-way junction.
(14) Ignore the access road to Arzac on your left and all the tarmac roads. Take a wide dirt track on your right with a wayside cross at the corner. The track crosses a small road. Continue straight ahead into the woods, go downhill and then uphill to reach the D33.
(15) Turn right. 120 metres further on, at the crossroads, turn left (signposted Lacalm). 200 metres further on, at the corner of a vineyard, leave the road and take a wide path on the right (yellow marker).
(16) Follow this path to the hamlet of Brunes. You will come back onto the tarmac road and should continue straight ahead, downhill. Once you reach the D30, turn left towards the village of Noailles. Once in the village, at the old wash house below, turn right onto the D25 (towards Albi).
(17) After crossing a bridge, leave this road, which turns left at a 90° angle between two houses. Continue straight ahead, then immediately left at the first fork.
(18) The road climbs, passing Salissière on the left. At the top of the hill, where the road curves to the right, turn left onto a path. This path comes out of the woods and disappears after about 800 metres. Continue across the field, heading for the corner of a vineyard marked by a small red brick hut.
(19) At the corner of this vineyard, turn right onto a wide path that runs alongside the vineyard uphill and leads to the small road you left earlier. Turn left. Follow the road for 300 metres, then, just before a large grey shed, turn right onto a wide path that leads into the woods.
(20) Descend to reach a small reservoir. Cross the grassy embankment that closes off the reservoir and turn right onto a small path. This path climbs back up and joins a wide trail (PR®, yellow markings).
(21) Turn left and follow this path to the D3.
(22) Turn right onto this road, which will take you back to the starting point in Cestayrols in about ten minutes. Your car will be waiting on your left, slightly below, after the town sign (S/E).
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