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Access: Leave your car in the village of Cinq-Mars-la-Pile and go to the church square where our hike begins.
Please note! This route is not signposted as such
(S/E). Head north, climbing a few steps and turning left into an alleyway. Leave Rue de la Juiverie on your right and immediately afterwards, cross a larger road. Go straight ahead up a street. The street turns into a wide path which leads to another path further up. This is the start of our circular route.
(1) Turn right and continue straight ahead, passing a first and then a second path on your right. Pass a disused military site before reaching a road at La Bécellière.
(2) Turn right and then immediately left onto a path. Pass a path on your left and, when the path turns right, continue straight ahead, passing a path on your left. Follow this path, which leads to a road after several bends.
(3) Turn right, pass in front of the Moulin de la Gouspillère mill along the Breuil stream and continue until you find a bridge crossing the stream on your left.
(4) Cross this bridge and continue along a path between houses. You will come to a crossroads with yellow signs. Turn right onto the road towards La Bousserie to cross the stream again, then left towards Mazière. Continue along this road which runs alongside Le Breuil. The road turns into a path near the ponds that follow one after the other on the left-hand side of the route.
(5) You will come to a wider path, which you take to the left to make a U-turn. Continue along this path until you reach a road.
(6) Turn left onto this quiet road and continue for about 1 km.
(7) At the sign for Mazière-de-Touraine, take the path on the left (Chemin de la Saulaie). Go around the eastern bank of the pond on this path, which then climbs up to a road.
(8) Continue straight ahead towards La Hottière. When you reach the D34, turn left and follow the road carefully for about 200 metres, then turn right onto the path alongside the Domaine de la Bruyère, where you can see the château.
(9) Take the first path on the left and continue straight ahead, passing numerous private paths on the left and right, always following the Domaine des Bruyères.
(10) Shortly after the end of the estate, turn right onto a path that leads to the back of the hamlet of Chanderry. Continue straight ahead until you reach a road in the hamlet of Les Étangs.
(11) Follow the road to the right to cross a stream, then continue straight ahead. At the next intersection, turn right, then shortly afterwards turn left onto a path. Pass close to the hamlet of Les Vaux Bruneaux. At the next three-way junction, turn left.
(12) At the next junction, near Val d'Enfer, turn right. Continue along this path and pass close to the hamlet of La Chevalerie. Leave the road on your left and continue to the hamlet of La Jasnière, where you will come to a road.
(13) Go down the road on the left to cross a stream, then turn onto the first road on the right. Further on, at a three-way junction, leave the path going down to the right and go up to the left towards the entrance to two cellars (yellow markings). You will come to a road in the hamlet of Le Buisson. Continue along the road to the right, then take the first left between the new houses. Continue straight ahead when the road turns into a path.
(14) At the next crossroads, opposite the housing estate, turn right onto a path that veers left further on to run alongside a copse. You will come to a road at a crossroads.
(15) Take the path opposite, which runs alongside a wall belonging to the Audrière property. Further on, turn left and follow a small path that descends to the right (yellow markings) towards the cemetery. Join the road that passes through Cinq-Mars-la-Pile (D953), going around a few houses.
(16) Cross and then turn left onto this road and follow a canal on your right. Pass a road on your left, at the bridge over the Breuil, cross the road again and continue to the right in the same direction. Pass a road on your left and turn into the next one.
(17) Head back up to the heights. Pass a mill, then at the next intersection, turn right to reach the intersection of the circular route.
(1) Then quickly return to the car park (S/E) on the right (the same route as on the way there).
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