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Park at Place de l’Hôtel de Ville.
(S/E) With the town hall on your right and with your back to the house of Alphonse de Poitiers, Count of Toulouse, take Rue de la Poste opposite you – a street with arcades that climbs up to the Esplanade Andrée Maurette. At the top of Rue de la Poste, turn left onto Boulevard du 8 Mai 1945 and continue straight on until you reach the old public weighbridge on Place de la Combe.
(1) Continue straight on and take Avenue du Grand Vignemale, which is directly opposite and slightly to the right. At the end of this street, cross the Route de Marquefave (take care when crossing, as cars can approach very quickly) and continue along the footpath directly opposite.
This path leads to the Chemin de Jourdane (a road and cul-de-sac); turn right and head uphill. Continue to the end, passing a cluster of houses. The Chemin de Jourdane ends at a bypass where you’ll find a farm track opposite.
(2) Carry on along the farm track, which joins the Route de Marquefave; follow this to the left. At the next junction, turn right onto the road leading down towards Marquefave (signposted).
(3) 300 metres after the junction, leave the Route de Marquefave on your left and continue along the road on the right. At this fork, a monument consisting of a beam resting on two posts commemorates the agricultural and rural resistance movement via an inscription (see photo). Continue along the road, which bends to the right and climbs; in fine weather, this offers a lovely view to your left of the countryside to the south and south-west, and the Pyrenees mountain range, including Mont Valier (the highest peak in the Ariège). Continue uphill until you reach a junction where two roads meet.
(4) At the junction, take the road on the right which leads back to Saint-Sulpice-sur-Lèze. The road offers views of the eastern slopes of Saint-Sulpice before the descent into the village and will take you past the former schools after you have passed the village’s current primary school. On the descent, the view allows you to see almost the entire administrative area of the commune of Saint-Sulpice-sur-Lèze, with the top of the church and, on the right, the Escons farm, an architecturally interesting building.
(5) Behind the old schools, turn left and continue along the street opposite (Avenue du Cimetière), which curves to the left and leads to the cemetery entrance. At the cemetery, take the street on the right, then the next one on the right again at the chemist’s (Rue du Regou). At the first junction, turn right to return to the Esplanade, where you will see the 12th-century church opposite and the old school buildings on the right.
(6) Take the street on the left that leads downhill and carry straight on past the esplanade into Rue de Verdun.
(7). Cross Rue de la République – which is the Toulouse–Foix road – and continue along Rue du 11 Novembre 1918, which runs behind the town hall and ends in the park, where you can admire the former orangery, now a nursery school, before returning to the square on your right. This is where your walk ends (S/E).
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