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Start: Arriving in Domme from the Vitrac bridge, follow the signs for the parking lots to the east side of the town and park in parking lot no. 4, a sort of large meadow, which is the only free parking lot.
Please note! This circular walk is sometimes waymarked, but not entirely, with Yellow or Green wayposts mentioning numbers (indicated in the description if necessary).
(S/E) With your back facing the parking lot, join the road and follow it to the right. At the road junction, turn right towards the soccer field. Further on, at the junction with a cross on the right, go straight on towards Lacombe, indicated by a road sign. Leave the soccer field on your left and continue straight ahead at the next intersection.
(1) At the next junction, as the road turns left towards Cenac, carry straight ahead on the track. At a fork in the road, follow the Yellow signs to the left. At a crossroads, take the second road on the left towards the Village Vacances des Ventoulines (holiday village).
(2) Arrive in front of this holiday village where you find several paths. Take the right-hand path, which is signposted in Yellow and VTT Brown (mountain bike waymarkers). Following these signs, turn left at a recently-built house in Reille hamlet and continue to the right. Immediately afterwards, you'll come to some wooden signs and continue straight ahead to reach the road. Follow this road to the right (Yellow signpost no. 13).
(3) At the end of this hamlet, carry on this road, ignoring another road on the left. At Yellow marker no. 16, turn right onto a small road and continue on the path that follows it. At the end of this track, you will come to a road.
(4) Follow it to the left (Yellow signpost no. 20) and turn onto the first road on the right (signpost no. 21) towards Croix de Blanchet (road sign). At the intersection with another road, turn left and, just after, when this road bends to the left, continue straight ahead on the path (beacon no. 23). You'll soon come to a tomb on the right-hand side of the path, keep going until you come to a road with wooden signs.
(5) Follow the road to the right to reach the junction with the D46 at an iron cross. Continue along the road opposite (Green waymarker no. 10). Shortly afterwards, you'll see a bread oven on your left. Follow the road to the hamlet of La Traverse.
(6) At the fork, shortly after, turn right, noticing an old bread oven on the left, then, at the crossroads just after, turn right in the direction of Baccas. Follow this road as far as the hamlet, crossing it and ignoring a road on the left. Further on, at a fork in the road, ignore the private road on the right.
(7) A hundred metres further on, turn left onto a track, following the Green n°4 signs. As you approach houses, turn right following Green signpost (n°2), then immediately afterwards, follow the road to the right Green signpost (n°1).
(8) At the fork in the road, turn right towards Les Teyssiers, following the Yellow signpost (no. 20). Walk through this hamlet, again noting an old bread oven, and, about 50 m further on, at the corner of a house, follow the Yellow path to the left. At the path junction, continue to the right (the left-hand path is not shown on the map and is private), taking care to follow the path to the left of and parallel to the path, and not the path itself. Continue through undergrowth until you reach a road.
(9) Follow it to the left. At a 4-ways crossroads, at the wooden signposts, turn right to pass Lugat hamlet, then continue on this road.
(10) At the intersection with the D50 (Yellow signpost no. 10), turn right and immediately right again (signpost no. 9). Continue along this road. Keep right at the fork.
(11) At the next intersection, at the Yellow signpost n°7, turn left. Continue, ignoring the roads on your right and passing signpost no. 6. At a stone cross, find Yellow waymarker no. 5 and follow the left-hand road. Continue on this road, ignoring two roads to the left and to the rear, even though the second road is waymarked in Yellow. Shortly afterwards, you come to the D50.
(12) Follow it to the left for about 40 m, then turn right just before the Church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité in Cénac. Go along the cemetery on your left (Green waymarkers) and continue along this path until you reach the small road, turn right onto it. At the intersection, ignore the Green waymarker on the left and continue straight ahead, noticing shortly afterwards a GR® waymarker (Red and White). Follow it through Cénac and up the hill towards Domme. Further on, turn right across Couderc, onto the D46.
(13) Cross over and follow the D46 to the right, towards Cénac city cantre. At the first crossroads, go straight ahead. Take the first left, then left again at the fork. Further on, at an X-junction, continue uphill, bearing left and following the Yellow and Saint-Jacques of Compostelle (Camino de Santiago) signs. At the top, past a left-hand bend, you come to the Porte des Bos, the southern gateway to the Domme citadel.
(14) Go through the gate and immediately turn right onto the Promenade des Remparts, which you follow until you reach Porte de la Combe. Turn left, then immediately right onto Rue de la Treille (street). At the end, follow the left-hand bend to continue along Rue du Guet (street). Ignore Rue de la Rose and Rue du Léopard on your left, before turning left into Rue de la Porte des Tours. Follow this straight ahead to arrive at Place de la Rode (washing place). As soon as you reach the square, turn right, then left into Rue de la Monnaie (Maison du Batteur de Monnaie at the beginning of the street).
Turn left into Rue de la Chapellerie, then straight ahead, slightly right, into Rue Guibert de Domme. At the junction with Rue Canto-Coucou, go straight on into Rue des Bambous. Turn left into Rue Paul Reclus and continue until you reach the Jardin Public. Walk along it to the left as far as the Moulin du Rol. Return right to the Jardin Public and walk along the 'parapet' above the cliff (view of the Dordogne valley) before emerging from the garden onto Place du Jubilé.
(15) Turn left, then right onto the Promenade des Falaises. Arrive at Esplanade de la Barre (lookout point over the Dordogne valley). Turn right to reach Place de la Halle (tourist office, cave tour, shops). At the other end of the square, turn left into Rue Jacques de Malleville, then right into Rue Carreyou du Calel.
Take a detour by turning right into Rue des Consuls as far as Maison des Consuls, then right again into Rue Carreyou Calel. Follow Rue Geoffroy de Vivans on the left for a few metres, then take the stairs on the right to reach Rue Eugène Leroy (Eugène Leroy house). Follow this street to the left. At the end, turn right to arrive immediately in front of the Porte des Tours (you can visit the Templiers' jail and its graffitis).
(16) Go through the gate to exit the citadel, then take the small road to the right, following the Green and Saint-Jacques signs. You'll also find a GR® sign a little further on, and follow it to the right, ignoring the underpass on the left. Reach the Cargamesh Cross and follow the path to the left (Yellow waymarker no. 6). A little further into the field, walk diagonally right to climb back up to parking lot n°4 (S/E).
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