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Car park behind the priory, Rue du Chanoine Moreau.
(S/E) Cross the car park towards the priory, walk through it and emerge onto Place Bérardier at the porch of the Romanesque church of Locmaria.
Turn into Rue Jean-Baptiste Bousquet, which runs alongside the Earthenware Museum on your left. Through the display windows, you can see some pottery on show.
At Place du Stivel, leave the footbridge over the Odet on your left and continue straight on along Allée de Locmaria, where several information boards provide historical details.
Walk past the bridge opposite the Courthouse on the opposite bank and continue on to the Pont Max Jacob. A flight of steps leads up to the traffic lights. Cross the road and you’ll reach a footbridge (Pont Saint-François) which takes you across the Odet.
(1) Cross the bridge and turn right to continue along the pavement on Rue du Parc. Pass the first bridge, with a view on your right of the Hôtel de la Préfecture on the opposite bank. Cross a second bridge (Pont Sainte-Catherine), with a view on your left of Saint-Corentin Cathedral and the former Episcopal Palace, now the Musée Breton. Cross the Odet via the third footbridge, known as the Passerelle de la Phalange d’Arvor, which dates from 1903 and was refurbished in 2016, opposite the modern Departmental Council building.
Cross Quai Dupleix carefully at the pedestrian crossing and turn into Allée François Truffaut opposite, between the Departmental Council building and a former cinema. You will emerge onto Rue Jean Jaurès, which you follow to the left for about fifty metres.
Cross this street carefully to reach a flight of steps leading up to Mont Frugy.
(2) Climb this fairly steep flight of steps, which turns to the right. Continue along the wide path that climbs to the upper part of Mont Frugy. Stay on this section, which offers the best view of the town and the countryside to the north of it. Ignore the various flights of steps on your right.
You’ll come to a gate followed by a series of steps leading down to Rue Haute at the traffic lights on the right.
(3) Cross this street, then continue left along the pavement, passing the Henriot pottery workshops and the Pascal Jaouen School of Embroidery. Turn right, passing the apse of Locmaria Church.
At the end of the street, turn right into the car park (S/E).
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