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Departure from Ribeauvillé Place de la Sinne, overlooked by the Hôtel au Lion and the Hôtel du Mouton, in the heart of the tourist district.
(S/E) Walk past the Hôtel au Lion and continue along the one-way street, passing No. 14 on your left, then the medieval bakery... Ignore Rue de l'Église on your left, then Rue des Prêtres. At the next fork, with the belfry further ahead and a street sign for "Grand'Rue" on the house (bar, no. 76) on your left, turn left onto Rue de l'Abbé Kremp. Go under a gate and you will come to a crossroads, opposite a calvary, at the foot of the vineyards. Take the street on the right.
(1) Shortly before reaching the crossroads with a "Stop" sign, turn left onto a street (street sign "Rue Klée" on the wall to your right), following the blue signs that indicate, among other things, the "Clos St-Vincent" (hiking signs also on the wall to your left). Stay on this small road that climbs through the vineyards. At the intersection with the first road, turn left and then immediately right (hiking signs), following the brown mountain bike trail markers. Continue straight ahead.
(2) Ignore a path on the right and at the fork just after, continue straight ahead, slightly to the right. Ignore all paths on the right. At the crossroads of four paths, continue straight ahead, and at the crossroads of four paths shortly after, continue straight ahead again. Pass a farm on your left and continue straight ahead with woods on your left and vineyards on your right. At the crossroads, continue straight ahead until you reach a road (hiking signs, post box on your left).
(3) Follow it to the left and cross a stream at a cross on your left and a light blue balustrade, ignoring the paths on the right at the hiking signs. Further on, just behind an access ramp to a private property, and at the hiking signs, take the path on the right. About 150 metres further on, at a fork, turn right. At the next crossroads, continue straight ahead into the woods, ignoring a path on the left and a path on the right that leads to vineyards.
(4) Further on, as the path begins a wide left turn, leave it and take the path on the right. About a hundred metres further on, the path runs alongside vineyards on the right and then enters the woods again. 50 metres further on, you will come to a path. Follow it straight ahead, ignoring a path on the left just after the entrance to a vineyard. At the end of this plot, at the fork, turn left and then, at the next intersection, turn right into the woods. The path continues further on at the edge of the woods with private land on your left, then leads to a road at a small car park.
(5) Follow the road to the right to enter Rodern and, at the fork, turn left. You will come to a wider street at Place de la Fontaine (street sign "Rue des Seigneurs" on the wall to your right and fountain (with storks) on your left). Turn right, then left between the red-walled house and the town hall, and walk past the church. Continue straight ahead, ignoring Rue Weber on your left, pass to the right of a pink stone cross and ignore the street on your right. At the fork, facing the vineyards, turn left and then take the first street on the right (hiking signs on the low wall), in the middle of the vineyards. After a left turn and a right turn (ignore the path opposite), the tarmac disappears. Further on, the path turns left.
(6) Immediately after, at the intersection, take the path on the right. 100 metres further on, ignore a path on the right. Leave the vineyards when the path veers to the right to cross a copse, then walk between woods and vineyards before crossing another copse and a stream, the Eckenbach. You will come to a path; follow it to the right, once again between vineyards. Further on, at the crossroads (hiking signs on your left), follow the tarmac road to the right. Pass a car park on your right and continue between houses.
(7) At the T-junction, at the "Le Parc" hotel, turn right to enter the village of Saint-Hippolyte. At the next crossroads, at the chapel, take the path opposite on the right of the house with pink walls bearing the street sign "Route du Vin". You will find yourself in the vineyards. Further on, turn left then right to continue between the vineyards on your right and the village houses on your left. At the end of the row of houses, follow the path that curves to the left and joins a road.
Turn left onto the bridge, then take Rue des Cigognes on the left. At the crossroads of four streets, turn right onto Rue Saint-Fulrade. Return to the Route du Vin, cross it and take a small street opposite, slightly to the left (Rue de la Fontaine). At the T-junction, turn right, ignore a street on the right and continue straight on along Rue des Remparts. You will come to a small canal. Follow it to the right to return to the Route des Vins.
(8) Cross it and follow it to the left. Turn onto the first road on the right (at a hotel on your left). Immediately after, ignore a street on the left and, at the next crossroads, at the "Rue de la Paix" street sign, continue into the left-hand bend of this street. Ignore a street on the left and then, at the T-junction, turn right. Shortly afterwards, when the street curves to the left, continue straight ahead on the path between the vineyards. Continue straight ahead, ignoring the paths on either side.
(9) At the junction with the road (D6), continue straight ahead on the path opposite, ignoring the paths on either side, until you reach another road. Follow it to the right and then, just after the "Rorschwihr" sign, at a cross on your left, turn left onto Rue des Cigognes. Ignore a road on the left and then on the right and continue straight ahead on the path between the vineyards on your left and the hedge of a house on your right. Then continue straight ahead, again through the vineyards, ignoring two paths on the left.
(10) Shortly before a right-hand bend in the path you are following, turn onto a path on the left. At the next crossroads, turn right and, further on, you will come to a worn tarmac road at a crossroads of several paths, next to private land. Turn right towards the church in Bergheim, whose bell tower you can see. The path approaches the Bergenbach stream, then runs alongside it on the left. Ignore the path on the left that crosses it.
(11) Further on, the path crosses the Bergenbach to approach the ramparts. Turn onto the first path on the left, then take the path on the left just behind the ramparts and continue with the turrets on your left and the houses of the village of Bergheim on your right. Further on, in the right-hand bend, pass the watchtower, then arrive on tarmac at an intersection and continue straight ahead to reach Grand Rue. Turn right, walk past the church, then continue straight ahead on the cobbled street. You will arrive at a square with a fountain surrounded by benches.
(12) Turn right onto the next street, behind the town hall, to reach Place du Docteur Walter. Turn left and continue straight ahead to reach the belfry (street sign "Rue du Vieil Hôpital" on the wall). Do not go underneath it, but turn left to return to the centre of the village via Grand Rue, lined with a hedge of plane trees (note the painted wall of "La Cour du Bailli" a little further on, on the right). Continue straight ahead until you reach the crossroads behind the town hall.
(12) Turn right onto Rue de la Croix and, at the next crossroads, continue straight ahead onto Rue Porte Neuve. Ignore a dead end on the left and, at the crossroads of several streets just after, continue straight ahead. Ignore a one-way street on the right and, further on, ignore the path straight ahead to continue on the road that veers slightly to the right. You will find yourself back among the vineyards. At the intersection with a small oratory, continue straight ahead, slightly to the left, going around the oratory on the left.
(13) At the next intersection, continue to the left. Further on, shortly after a cross on your right, ignore a path on the right, then a farm track on the left before coming to a road, at a green signpost for bicycles. Follow the road to the right (towards Ribeauvillé). At the houses, as the road veers to the left, continue straight ahead on the path. Go straight ahead between the vineyards on your right and private land on your left, ignoring a path on the right.
(14) At the intersection behind the large Sources Carola de Ribeauvillé warehouse, follow the path on the left which goes around the factory and joins a road opposite the large round building of a secondary school. Follow the road to the right, ignoring all the streets on either side, until you reach a crossroads with traffic lights (with Rue des Bains Carola on the right). Continue straight ahead behind the barriers and further on, you will reach a street opposite the Cave de Ribeauvillé, next to a small car park. Turn right. At the roundabout, continue right towards the town centre (D106), note a pink stone statue on your right, then, at another roundabout, continue straight on the D1bis (road sign for Bergheim).
(15) Immediately take the pedestrian crossing on the left to cross the D1bis, continue to the right in front of the Auberge du Cheval Noir, then turn left onto the cobbled street (ignore Rue des Cigognes further to the left). Pass to the right of a fountain and then the Tourist Office and note the street sign "Grand'Rue" on your right. Continue straight ahead on this busy street. Further on, you will find a fountain and the Town Hall on your left. Continue straight ahead to pass under the belfry, then turn slightly left to reach Place de la Sinne (S/E).
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