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Park in one of the many parking spaces on the Place du Marché.
(S/E) Face the belfry and turn right, following the Sorgue river. At the end, leave Chemin Naquet on your right, continue for a few metres and turn right into Chemin des Estourans (one-way street). Keep left to watch the ducks and continue until you see a passage on the left.
Open the gate and cross the footbridge over the Sorgue. Enter the public garden and turn right to go around the pretty dovecote. Leave the park opposite via a footbridge and continue to Chemin du Moulin at the corner of a building. Look to your right at the small lock and its stone arches.
Turn left, keeping the church in sight, and continue to Place du Chasselas with the remains of the ramparts on your right. Turn right into Rue Pierre Goulon and follow it straight ahead to Rue de la République. Turn right, then left onto the pedestrian crossing to reach the square in front of Notre-Dame-du-Lac.
(1) Go around the church on the right and cross the Sorgue river via the bridge. Continue on the left-hand pavement of Cours du Docteur Seigle. At the crossroads, turn left, then leave Route des Taillades on your left and continue right onto Route d'Orange for 50 metres. Turn left onto Route de Saint-Saturnin and follow it to the end.
(2) At the crossroads, turn right to reach a large roundabout. Turn right to find a pedestrian crossing. Cross the D1 on this crossing and turn left/right into Chemin de Touzon.
Continue along the road until you reach the junction after the Mas la Poule (stud farm).
(3) Leave the road on your right and left and continue straight ahead on Chemin de la Rose. The asphalt gives way to dirt and leads to a car park on the left. Leave the path on the left and go around the wooden fence to climb the stony path opposite.
Continue climbing almost straight up the main path, ignoring all other tracks on either side. At times, small wooden posts marked or unmarked with a yellow arrow indicate the way.
When you reach a gate, go through it on the right and head to the entrance of Château de Touzon.
Take a tour of the site and enjoy the 360° view of the surroundings.
(4) Leave the castle grounds and turn left to reach a picnic area. Take a path on the left that climbs up to the rear of the castle and the Chapelle Saint-Pierre chapel.
Return to the picnic tables and take a path on the left just after the only bench. The path climbs up the hill, with the stone base of a cross marking the highest point.
Continue to the right to begin the descent with Mont Ventoux in sight. Go around the water tank on the left and continue along the path for about ten metres.
Look for a path marked by a small wooden stake on the left and follow it into the woods. Continue down this path until you reach a fork. Leave the path marked red and yellow (unofficial) on the left and continue downhill to the right until you reach a good path on flat ground.
(5) On the right are the Touzon caves (entrance fee). Turn left onto the path that continues into the woods. Stay on the main path, ignoring the other paths, and leave the woods to go around a property on the right. Ignore the road that branches off to the right and continue around the house.
At the start of a bend, leave the main path and head under the trees opposite, down a small track.
Further on, ignore a path on the left closed by a barrier and continue under a tunnel of vegetation until the next junction marked by a wooden stake.
Leave this path on your left and the next one 10 metres further on to join a tarmac road (Chemin Gaffe de Ragachon).
(6) Continue south on this little road with not much traffic. Pass a pretty farmhouse surrounded by a lavender field, then the road will curve left to a crossroads.
(7) Turn left onto Traverse de la Tapy and continue for 300 m to return to the crossroads you passed on the way there.
(3) Turn right onto Chemin de Touzon to return to the roundabout on the D1. Cross at the pedestrian crossing and continue straight ahead until you reach the crossroads.
(2) Leave the road on the left and continue straight ahead on Chemin des Mourguettes. Ignore all the streets on either side, cross Route des Taillades and continue along Impasse de la Garancine until you reach a paved area.
(8) Take the footbridge and turn your head to the left to see a small water wheel turning on the small arm of the Sorgue. Continue across and admire the stone arch opposite and the large water wheel on your right. Continue straight ahead between the buildings on Place de Verdun, ignoring all the roads on either side. Cross Rue de Verdelin and continue straight ahead into Rue Voltaire.
Ignore the street on your left and continue until you reach the edge of a stream. Turn left between the ramparts on your left and the Sorgue on your right. Cross the market square, which is just a large car park, to reach the Beffroi and the car park where you started (S/E).
nice little circuit.
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