Quercy Outdoor: The ancient Roman road

Park in the small car park opposite Marminiac Town Hall.

(S/E) Cross the D13 at the pedestrian crossing, walk past the town hall and follow the small street which joins the D63. Walk along the road to the left for about 250 m.

(1) Turn left at a cross signposted “Mourlanes”: there’s a typical house with a dovecote on the left. Walk through an old farm. At the crossroads, take the left-hand path leading up onto a plateau (walnut grove, dovecote on the right).

(2) At the junction with a road (cross), turn right and continue along a path leading downhill, bordered by a low wall. When you reach a meadow, near the Grès buildings, turn right into the woodland.
Further on, turn left onto the path to join a road. Follow it to the left, take the next path on the right (wash house) and you’ll come out onto the D13.

(3) Cross the road with care as the bend obscures visibility, then continue along the path opposite for approximately 1.5 km.

(4) At the Lédrier junction and before reaching the D13, turn left onto a path through the woods (not shown on the map). Follow it to the road and turn left towards the hamlet of Le Courteau.
Before you reach it, take a track on the right and continue to the four-way junction.

(5) Turn left. Walk past the Bancuq farm and, at the next junction, take a road on the left.

(6) Cross the D63 with care and take the path opposite. Join a road and follow it to the right as far as the hamlet of Lalbenque Basse.

(7) Before the first building on the left, take the path on the left which descends between the meadows and then climbs back up through the woods. When you reach a wider path, turn left until you reach the D63. Turn immediately right onto the path which descends into the woods.

(8) At the hamlet (cross), turn right towards Briguemil (horse riders should continue straight on), then take the first path on the left. Back on the D13, head towards Marminiac on the right and arrive at the car park (S/E).