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Park on the car park behind the town hall of Cabrières d'Avignon.
(S/E) Go to the Cours Jean Giono and turn left. You quickly come to a crossroads.
(1) Here you will find a first fountain and the old town hall, now converted into a multimedia resources centre. Take the old road towards Lagnes (the "Ancienne Route de Lagnes"), and then the first left towards the Saint Eusebius Chapel. At the various intersections, continue straight on till you reach the chapel.
(2) Take the road leading to the right. Continue on a path with red and white markings (the long-distance path GR® 6). Rely on the waymarking at the various intersections with scrubland tracks. At the T-junction turn right to reach the Cabrières d'Avignon quarry. Skirt the quarry with the perimeter fence on your right and continue round the tip of the quarry, where there is a fine view of the excavation.
At the first junction after the quarry tip, turn left, still following the GR®6 and its red and white markings. Skirt round the left of the field. After the beehives, keep left and continue on the GR®6. Care is needed, since the painted crosses indicating the direction not to be taken are sometimes more easily visible than the bars marking the right way. Keep an eye open for the marks on the tree trunks.
Just before the D100 road, take the track on the left and follow the road, crossing it a little higher up at the monument to Franc Kleber and the group of resistance fighters known as the Maquis du Chat. You will then find one of the marker posts commemorating the Plague Wall. Take this path, which is still marked in red and white. It leads uphill at first to reach an old shrine. Continue straight on, then follow the path until it intersects with the Plague Wall.
(3) Turn left along the Plague Wall, noting a sign to La Pouraque. Note the remains of guardhouses which provided shelter for the sentries guarding the wall. Follow the wall until it intersects with a firefighting access track (DFCI) at a water cistern.
(4) At this point, leave the GR®6 to turn sharp right down a path heading south. At the next junction, bear right. Thereafter head left to reach a second cistern at the junction with the Chemin de Terre Rouge.
(5) Take this lane to the right and follow it to the tarmac road, the Chemin des Barres. Turn right towards the village, then left and left again. Pass in front of the castle and the wash-house. Continue straight on. Turn right, past the Church of Saint Vincent. Continue straight on to the crossroads with the fountain which you passed when starting out.
(1) Return to the car park at the town hall, following the outward route in reverse (S/E).
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