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Park your car in the car park of the wine cooperative, Avenue de la Gare, in Cessenon-sur-Orb.
(S/E) With your back to the cooperative winery, turn right towards the Church of Saint-Pierre-de-la-Salle (one-way traffic).
Once you reach the square, leave the café "Le Helder" on your left and take theGR® (red and white markings) almost directly opposite, heading towards the reservoir along Avenue de Cazedarnes. You will pass over the old communal wash house.
(1) Once at the junction by the reservoir, leave theGR® and take the path on the right. After 100m, at the three-way junction, turn left and then left again 300m further on.
Follow this path to the end, ignoring the turnings to the left and right.
(2) Climb over the rocks blocking the path and turn immediately right to go round the vineyards. Keep left at the next two junctions, then turn right onto a track and head towards a four-way crossroads
(3) Turn left and head slightly uphill to Commeyras.
(4) At the three-way junction at the end of the hamlet, take the sharp left-hand bend. From here, you’ll be following the old local railway line; keep going straight on. Be careful, as in places the track has collapsed and the route is almost completely hidden by vegetation!
(5) At the end of the path, when you reach Pierrerue, cross an old industrial site (marked by a concrete slab). Continue straight on and join the Chemin de Pieu Rouquet (tarmac road), turning left.
After 50m, turn sharply left, passing beneath the houses. At the end of the tarmac road, turn right and head towards a crossroads.
(6) Continue straight ahead, turn left at the next two junctions and carry on through fields and vineyards to reach Les Champs Longs.
(7) In winter, you can have a picnic here facing the sun. Continue along the main track, heading generally east-northeast, turn left where the track bends 90° to the right and reach a crossroads.
(8) Turn left, then left again at the following junctions.
(9) You will then begin a descent that is shaded and slippery in wet weather. At the end of the descent, the path leads to a fork just before an old quarry on the right-hand side. Continue to the left.
(10) Pass the quarry and continue for about 300m.
(11) Turn left onto theGR® trail (theGR® route shown on the map is incorrect here), which heads first north then north-east and leads to a junction.
(12) Turn left, leaving two paths on your right, and rejoin the junction you passed at the start of the walk.
(1) All that remains is to take one last look at the keep, before continuing straight on and heading back down to the car park (S/E).
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