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Park in the car park of the Fontanès Cultural Centre.
Yellow markings.
(S/E) Go down Rue de l'Église, then turn left onto Rue Traversière and continue to a T-junction.
(1) Turn left towards the Château de Pondres.
Walk between the stone wall and the vineyards on a small tarmac road, then continue straight ahead for about 100 metres until you reach a fork, where you should take the right-hand branch (a yellow cross on the left-hand branch indicates that this direction is prohibited). Continue straight ahead, climbing gradually through a wood of holm oaks and pines (tarmac and stony road), then switch to the descent towards Pondres.
(2) Descend to reach a tarmac road. Take the Chemin de la Plaine des Jas on the left. At the Place du Puits, turn right and immediately cross the bridge. Walk along the castle grounds on your left and the vineyard on your right (take the time to visit this beautifully restored castle, now a 4-star hotel).
(3) Opposite No. 10 of the château residences, take the path on the right (the sign indicating the direction has been torn down) which goes around the vineyard on the right. At the fork, continue to the end of the vineyard.
(4) When you reach the other side of the vineyard (opposite the château), take the small path on the left that runs along the right-hand side of the motocross track, keeping the small stream on your right.
(5) After the motocross track, continue following the stream until you reach some steps (a sign points towards Moulin de Pattes, which leads to the ballast of an old railway line that you follow for about a hundred metres on the right. Before the second part of a bridge, go down to the right, pass under the bridge on the left and continue to the right.
Leave the field on your left and, after the bend, turn right under the trees.
Continue along the path, which follows a vineyard on your right, to reach a small tarmac road 200 metres further on. Turn right and walk up to the old railway station. Go around it and turn left to reach Mas du Brut.
(6) Go around this farmhouse and then turn left along the vineyard.
When you reach the field, turn left and continue straight ahead until you reach another field.
Go around it on the left, leaving the stone bridge on your left, and continue straight ahead to reach the old railway line.
(7) Walk up the ballast of the old railway line on the right for a few hundred metres until you reach a small hut, a ruined railway gatehouse. 10 metres before the hut, take the small path that descends to the left. Follow the path until you reach a tarmac road.
(8) Before taking the road on the right, take the time to walk down to the dam on the Vidourle and admire the mill on the other side of the river (Moulin de Runel), a splendid building. Return to the previous crossroads (signposted Lecques, Fontanès) and walk up the tarmac road.
Go under the bridge on the right and, after the wine cellar, turn right again to follow the track. Walk alongside a vineyard on your right and continue to the Chemin de Salinelles crossroads.
(9) Take this road on the right and continue straight ahead at the next crossroads to reach Chemin de Lecques. Turn right and then right again at the first street, Rue du Micoucoulier.
(1) Retrace your steps to return to the Foyer Culturel car park (S/E).
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