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In Broze, park in the small car park next to the town hall.
Signposting: GR® white and red +PR® yellow
(S/E) Take the narrow staircase leading to the town hall and continue to the small square in front of the church. Walk along the cemetery and then the fence of a beautiful stone house, taking the wide path that then crosses a pretty hilly landscape. Red and whiteGR®46markings.
Join a stony track and continue straight ahead along a copse on your right. At the tarmac road, turn right and begin the descent into a small, steep-sided valley.
(1) At the bottom of the descent, leave the road and follow a grassy path on the left which after 50m reaches a fork (not shown on the IGN map) at the corner of a vineyard. Turn left and continue straight ahead between meadows and small woods to reach a road after a short steep climb. Turn right and follow this road, keeping carefully to the right-hand side, until you reach the first path on the left.
(2) Cross carefully to take this path, which crosses another road at an electricity pole and continues almost flat between vast meadows with the heights of the Grésigne in the background on the left.
(3) At the T-junction, turn right. After a long flat stretch, the path climbs up to the first vineyards of Rataboul before joining the road serving the property (altitude 255 m).
Stop here and turn around to enjoy the beautiful view of the village of Castelnau-de-Montmiral, which dominates the horizon from the top of its hill. Then continue on your way to reach a nearby crossroads.
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(4) Turn right and follow the road carefully, keeping to the left-hand side. Cross the D115a (be careful, this is a busy road) and continue straight ahead on the D26 (Chemin de la Résigné). A beautiful panorama opens up before you with the church of Montels on the hill to your right and, opposite, the imposing mass of Mauriac Castle, which you need to keep an eye out for.
Leave the road on your left that leads to the D922, now signposted as a dead end, and continue on the right until the first bend.
(5) Leave the road and take a grassy path on the left that passes by a recently built house.
Initially wide between the vineyards, the path narrows and becomes less distinct as it runs alongside a cultivated plot. It widens again at a vineyard on the left before coming out onto a small road.
Continue straight ahead towards the beautiful stone house with purple shutters (not very attractive) in Trés Cantous, whose remarkable dovecote houses the Musée de l'Invincible Vigneron, part of the Conservatoire Viti-Vinicole. Continue to the junction with the road to Larroque.
(6) Enjoy the view stretching from here to the Montagne Noire and the Pyrenees, then follow the road downhill to the right (road sign for Broze). At the start of the right-hand bend, turn left onto a wide vineyard track marked by a small solitary tree.
This path then winds through a small valley partially covered with vineyards, dominated on the right by the beautiful buildings of the hamlet of Larroque. Ignore the turnings on the left towards Les Crozes and continue in the same direction.
At the corner of the last vineyard plot, leave the wide path on your right and continue straight ahead, passing a magnificent rose plantation before reaching a road.
(7) Continue straight ahead. A few metres after a "Give way - 150m" sign, leave the road and take a wide path on the right. Further on, ignore the path on the left that climbs back up to the D922 and continue to the right, crossing the small bridge over the Ruisseau de Viars.
(8) Turn left onto a wide, partially stony dirt track. Just before you reach the junction with the tarmac road leading to La Garriguette, don't hesitate to turn left and walk down to the edge of the vineyard to read the very informative sign about the Merlot and Duras grape varieties.
At the junction with the road, turn right to begin the steep climb that leads to La Garriguette, where you will join thePR® Vignobles et Châteaux trail.
YellowPR® signposting for Vignobles et Châteaux
(9) Turn right and head for Mas d'Oustry to rejoin the tarmac after another steep climb. At the corner of the wine storehouse and opposite a beautiful house with a dovecote, turn right. The tarmac quickly gives way to a gently sloping stony track.
Leave this wide path on your right and continue straight ahead, passing an old covered well topped by a green chain pump that has seen better days. Continue to Mas de Mazières, another beautiful stone house, and rejoin the tarmac road.
(10) At the crossroads (Chemin des Coteaux), turn right and follow the road sign for "Broze". The road begins to descend alongside the Bois d'Oustry and leads to a crossroads.
Continue left, then turn right at the first road and take the last short but steep climb that leads to the town hall car park (S/E).
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