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The walk starts from the car park at Sainte-Scholastique Abbey in Dourgne.
The trail is marked in yellow after the surrounding wall.
(S/E) Head towards the abbey and go around it to follow the rear wall until you reach a crossroads.
(1) Turn 90° right towards the village of Dourgne. At the fork, turn right into Allée Mère Marie Cronier and continue to a crossroads.
(2) Turn left onto Rue Berge du Taurou to cross the residential area and avoid the centre of Dourgne. Then turn right three times, right-left-right, to reach the D12.
(3) Cross it and turn left. Then follow the signs for Route de la Cave on the right, passing a castle on your right. At the Cave, go around the building on the left and join La Montagnarié.
In the hamlet, continue along the road that curves sharply to the left and head towards Baylou, then towards the Saint-Macaire spring, staying on the same road. Shortly before the spring, you will come to a junction with a path on the left.
(4) Continue straight ahead for a round trip to the healing spring of Saint-Macaire, where you will find a chapel dedicated to Fatima and a tree laden with mouniès.
(5) Return to the previous crossroads.
(4) Leave the road and take the grassy path on the right that leads to the foot of the Saint-Chipoli quarry.
(6) Just before the D12 road, turn left onto a gravel path and you will come to a crossroads.
(7) Take the path on the right to begin the climb, cross the road and, after a few hairpin bends, you will reach a crossroads. Turn left and walk back to reach the statue of Saint-Stapin.
(8) Return to the previous crossroads and continue straight ahead to begin the long climb to the ruins of Saint-Chipoli.
(9) Take a short detour to the left to see the ruins of Saint-Chipoli. This is a picnic spot with views of the Dourgne valley and its abbeys. Return to the path and continue to the left.
(10) Take a sharp left turn. Go around a huge fallen tree and, at the crossroads, turn right to cross the Taurou stream and continue along the track.
(11) At the T-junction, take the path on the left and, 300 metres further on, turn left again to climb up towards the Saint-Ferréol desert.
(12) After the car park, turn left and go back to the Protestant cross commemorating the original site of La Capelette.
Continue along the path to La Capelette de Saint-Ferréol and its genoulhades on the right (highest point of this circuit). View of Dourgne and its abbeys.
(13) Continue downhill and take the left-hand path at the first crossroads. Keep straight ahead, ignoring all the paths that branch off. At the road, turn left until you reach a fork.
(14) Turn right onto the path that leads back to Sainte-Scholastique and the crossroads.
(1) Follow the same route back to the car park (S/E).
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