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Marcillac-Vallon cemetery car park.
(S/E) From the Marcillac-Vallon cemetery car park, take the road that descends towards the campsite, above a warehouse on the left. Turn left and cross the Le Créneau river. Walk alongside the recent building of the Conques-Marcillac Community of Communes before the intersection with Avenue Gustave Bessières.
(1) Turn right and leave the village. At the crossroads, turn left onto the road to Saint-Christophe-Vallon, Decazeville. Drive carefully for 100 metres before you come to a chain-barred path on the right.
(2) Take this path and climb into the woods via two hairpin bends, then cross the Saint-Pierre plateau towards the south-west until you reach the isolated chapel of Saint-Pierre de Nacelle, which a volunteer association is working to renovate and bring to life (pilgrimages, festivals).
(3) Head west to exit the enclosure through the large gate, open the electric fence, close it behind you, and cross the field with your back to the gate. Turn right at the edge onto a faint path that passes below an isolated building before going through a gate with a turnstile. Join the La Coste crossroads.
(4) Turn right onto this track. After a 90° bend, descend to a road. Turn right and continue downhill to the Lendrevie Hautes-Campels crossroads. Turn left and continue for 950 metres on tarmac to reach Campels.
(5) After the bend, look for a path on the right that descends steadily northwards and turns right before the Vernholez stream, which it then follows on the right bank. After a bend, you will come to the small road of La Borie, near an EDF transformer. Continue for about 50 metres to the right until you reach the junction with the D 901. Turn left carefully to cross the Créneau again. After the bridge, take a break in front of thesecond chapel on the route, Notre-Dame de la Salette, at the junction with the La Coupette-Agar road.
(6) Take this small road that leads to the farms of Rosières and Poux before a three-way junction.
(7) Turn right towards La Coupette, passing by Les Cadiès and then Les Cayroux. You will arrive at a place called La Coupette with its scattered houses. Follow the signs for "Lodges la Coupette".
GR® 62 White-Red markings
(8) Atthe second sign, join theGR® 62 on the right, then take the path on the left. Climb up this winding track, passing a cross. Then turn east and continue to an intersection (elevation 474). Leave the track leading to La Plantade on your right. After 450 m and a few bends, look for a path on the right (no longer marked) that leads up to the Chapelle Saint-Jean le Froid chapel, standing on a hillock.
YellowPR® markings "De la Vigne à la Forêt"
(9) The site offers a 360° panorama: views of the Monts d'Aubrac, the wind turbines of Lévézou, the bell tower of Rodez Cathedral, the Decazeville basin... and picnic tables nearby to prolong your stop.
An alternative route is described here or in the itinerary below:
Set off again, passing to the left of the chapel along a steep, stony path that joins a track. Follow it to the right for about 150 metres.
(10) Leave this track by turning left into the woods onto a rutted, winding dirt track. Further down, cross a wider track and continue straight on to the Bruéjouls stream.
(11) Turn right and follow the stream, fording it five times. Then leave it behind and join the small road to Alzernes, passing by a farm outbuilding. Turn left onto the road and leave the valley, passing the Tapou farm on your right. Join the road to Allègre.
(12) Continue straight ahead and stop at thefourth church on the route, Notre-Dame de Foncourrieu, just after a fountain on the left in a circular hole in a wall.
(13) Cross the adjoining park to visit the site, then return to the road to reach the village of Marcillac-Vallon, arriving above the cemetery. Turn right to return to the car park (S/E).
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