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The route starts from the square in front of the town hall, where there are several parking spaces available.
(S/E) Head towards the river and, facing it, take the path on the right. Pass the wash house and you’ll come to a tarmac road. Follow it to the right.
When you reach the Grande Rue, turn left. Turn right onto the street leading towards the church. Pass the church and the cemetery on your right.
Red-white markings (GR®®13) + yellow-blue.
(1) Let the first track lead off to the right and take the path shortly afterwards on the right. The climb is a tough start! At the first junction (with a Red Cross and White Cross opposite), turn left. After a breather on a fairly flat section, the descent is very steep. It’s best to take the path on the left-hand side (along the trees) – the descent is very slippery and challenging.
(2) Cross the path and go through the gate (usually open). Continue along this path with a fence on your right. This path offers sweeping views over the Cure Valley. You’ll come out onto the D227 road. Turn right. Just before the cemetery (on either side of the street), head up to the right and take the stony path.
(3) At the stone hut, turn left. Continue along this main track. When you reach the junction of Rue du Château and Rue Cottin, go straight on. Continue for about a hundred metres before turning onto a path on the right. Walk alongside the castle’s buttress walls, passing the ruins on your right, and arrive at the Chapel of Val-Sainte-Marie.
(4) Take a hairpin bend to rejoin the Grande Rue. Pass the Manoir de Chastenay on your right. Turn right into Rue des Monts d’Arcy and, when you reach the crossroads, turn right.
End of the red-and-white signposting (GR®®13).
(5) Continue straight ahead along the path, leaving theGR®®13to your left. Carry on along this fairly wide track until you come within sight of a road on your right and a coniferous woodland on your left.
(6) Cross the road (D237) and take the path on the left which runs parallel to it. After about 200 metres, the path turns sharply (90°) to the right.
(7) Continue straight on along this ancient Roman road known as the Agrippa. The first 300 metres are along the edge of the forest; after that, continue through the undergrowth. Cross a road, then a cross-path, to reach a tarmac road (D69).
(8) Head downhill to the right towards the hamlet of Sery. Cross the hamlet in a south-east to north-west direction. Stay on the Grande Rue, crossing the Rue de Bessy. After the cluster of houses, ignore the dead-end road on the left, then a path leading into a private property on the right.
(9) At the Fork in the road, turn right. Walk alongside a strip of woodland on the right. Stay on this main path until the next junction with a road.
(10) Make a right-left turn as you cross the track. Take the path heading towards the woods to join a small track leading to the Ferme du Fays. Continue straight on for about 400m.
(11) Where the road curves, leave it and head into the woodland (an old railway carriage converted into a hut on the right). At the first crossroads, turn left. Head down through the woodland, then reach a cultivated area. You’ll come to the first houses in Accolay. Facing the railway line, turn right.
Red-and-white markings (GR®®13).
(12) Turn right onto this wide path, leaving the level crossing on your left. Stay on this main path, passing a wayside cross on your right. Enter the woodland. Walk above the parish priest’s house and then the site of Reigny Abbey. You’ll reach the first houses of Bessy-sur-Cure, with the River Cure always on your left.
(13) Turn left. Cross the road, then immediately afterwards take the small path on the left which leads down to the river (markedGR®®13). Continue along the banks of the Cure until you reach the car park (S/E).
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