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Access: Provinsstation , on the Transilien P line
Initially, the route takes a circular route around Provins without following any specific marked trail. It then rejoins the GR®11 and its red and white markings, which it follows to the end.
Provins circular tour:
(S) From the station, take Rue Hégésippe Moreau opposite. Cross a canal and then the Voulzie river, and turn slightly left onto Rue du Four des Raines. Continue left between a school and the media library (following the Voulzie river, which flows in a ditch on the right). Continue straight on Rue Fourtier Masson until you reach Place Honoré de Balzac.
(1) Turn right to walk along the square and continue along Rue des Cordeliers. First turn left then right onto Rue du Val and immediately take Rue Sainte-Croix. Turn left onto Rue Toussaint Rose, in front of Sainte-Croix Church.
(2) Take Rue Valentin Abeille on the right and enter the Victor Garnier garden opposite (if it is closed, go around it on the left). Cross the park and exit on the other side, to the north.
(3) Take the path on the left, which continues onto Boulevard d'Aligre. Turn into the third street on the left, Rue des Prés, passing in front of the rose garden.
(4) Shortly after the rose garden, turn right, follow the street as it curves to the left and continue straight ahead on Rue des Blancs Manteaux, then along the path that continues uphill. Halfway up the slope, reach and cross Rue Saint-Thibault, a perpendicular street that also goes uphill.
(5) Take the stairs opposite to reach Rue du Collège at the top. Follow it to the right, then turn left onto Rue Pierre Ythier to reach the square in front of the Collegiate Church of Saint-Quiriace. Cross the square and head towards the nearby César Tower.
(6) Go around the tower on your left, following the small path that leads to Rue du Palais. Follow it to the left until you reach Place du Châtel. Cross this square to Rue Couverte, arriving at the opposite corner.
(7) Take Rue Couverte on the right, then Rue de Jouy as it continues. Reach and cross the Porte de Jouy at the ramparts.
(8) Turn left onto the small road that runs along the outside of the ramparts. Follow the bend to the left and continue to Porte Saint-Jean.
(9) Re-enter the old town through this gate and continue straight on to Rue Couverte. You will find Place du Châtel on your right.
(7) Cross the square and exit opposite, on Rue de l'Ormerie. Then take Rue Jean Desmarets on the right and continue to the crossroads with Ruelle des Morts on the left and Rue Saint-Nicolas opposite.
(10) Then turn right onto Chemin de la Montagne du Bourreau, which descends quite steeply. At the bottom, cross Avenue du Général De Gaulle and continue straight ahead onto Boulevard Gambetta, Boulevard Gilbert Chomton and then Boulevard Carnot. As you do so, you will pass Ru de Barcq and La Voulzie.
(11) Turn right onto Rue Aristide Briand, then left to walk along the canal after crossing it, in a small park. Continue straight ahead onto Avenue Jean-Jaurès to pass the station again and continue to Rue des Bordes.
Route to Longueville on the GR®11:
(12) Turn right, cross the railway tracks, and take the street on the right at the roundabout. Then turn left onto Sentier de la Fontaine, which crosses a residential neighbourhood. Continue to the crossroads with Rue des Hêtres.
(13) The GR® continues opposite via Sentier de la Fontaine, but when the route was surveyed, this section was closed due to construction work. If this is still the case, take Rue des Hêtres on the right, then the first street on the left. Go up the small path, cross a street and turn left between the blocks of flats. Find the GR® markings on Rue Jeanne Chauvin.
If the Sentier de la Fontaine is reopened after (13), follow it straight ahead and continue along Rue Jeanne Chauvin.
(14) Follow the street that turns right, then take the path that branches off to the left to join the D1, which passes just above. Take this road in the same direction (safe hard shoulders) and follow its wide curve to the left until you reach Chemin des Grattons in front of the hospital.
(15) Take Chemin des Grattons on the right. Pass the waste collection centre and continue to the Hennepont farm.
(16) Take the path that branches off to the left across the fields and take the second path on the right after 600 metres. Follow the bend to the left after 400 metres and veer left again a little further on until you reach the D1.
(17) Take this road to the right for 100 metres, and when it starts to turn right downhill, continue straight on along a small road. Cross the D1 again at the end of this small road and continue straight on along Rue aux Taillants, in Chalautre-la-Petite.
(18) At the end, take Rue des Moulins on the left and return to the D1 between the town hall and a wash house.
(19) Continue to the right and return to Place de l'Escargot on the right. Continue to the church.
(20) Turn left into Ruelle des Bretonnes in front of the church. Cross Ru des Méances and join Rue de la Font d'Orson. Follow it to the left for 300 metres.
(21) Take Rue de Longueville, the second street on the right, crossing the stream, and follow it for 400 metres.
(22) Turn right onto Rue du Pressoir Dieu, which climbs towards the woods. After 200 metres, take the path on the left. Follow it, between woods and fields, for a good kilometre until you reach a hamlet in Poigny.
(23) Turn left at the first houses and continue across the fields. Reach and cross a wood, then walk alongside the working quarries on the descent. Continue along the path, which slopes gently downwards, until you reach a tarmac road.
(24) Take the path on the left. After 200 metres, turn left onto a path that goes uphill. Continue until you reach a road next to a quarry. Turn left at the two three-way junctions and you will arrive at Septveilles-le-Bas, a residential area.
(25) Follow the street to the left, which turns right shortly afterwards. Continue straight ahead and cross the entire neighbourhood, ignoring the roads that cross it.
(26) At the end, turn left to continue along the neighbourhood on your left. After 300 metres, turn right onto the path that leads to the fields. Pass a water tower, continue for 200 metres and turn right at the next three-way junction. Reach the edge of the woods after another 300 metres.
(27) Continue straight ahead to begin the descent into the woods. Exit the woods further down, in front of the Longueville railway viaduct, which is clearly visible opposite. Finish the descent through the fields, pass under a first railway bridge (the Longueville-Provins line), then under a second (the wider Paris-Mulhouse main line).
(28) Leave the GR®11 here by turning left to follow the railway line. Turn left, as close as possible to the tracks, at the three-way junction that appears after 100 m, and join Longueville station a little further ahead (E).
Return: Longuevillestation , on the same branch of the Transilien P line.
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