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Parking is available on the D59, below the OPAC blocks at the bottom of Rue des Jardins.
(S/E) Set off to the left along Rue de la Prairie and turn left onto Rue de Romery.
which you take on the right. At the sign marking the exit from Ville-sur-Lumes, you can see a panoramic view to the left of Lumes, the Meuse and the Romery diversion canal (photo). The road deteriorates from there and passes through copses, meadows, small fields and old quarries before reaching the departmental road.
(1) At the very bottom, take the D5 along Rue des Carrières to the right, following the pavement. The houses are built at the foot of the old quarries and you pass through part of the village. Take the first road on the right, heading up Rue des Mazy. You’ll find yourself in the middle of the old quarries, which are half-hidden by vegetation. On the right, slightly below, an old washhouse is fed by the Fontaine de Mazy, with a small picnic area. Streams wind their way through the area. Continue uphill.
(2) Shortly after the last house, turn left onto a dirt track. From here, the view opens up once more onto the Meuse, the villages of Romery and Villes-Semeuse, and, to the right, the towers of La Ronde-Couture in Charleville-Mézières. The path crosses meadows, farmland and a small wood. Pass the first path on the right. Head down towards the stream and cross an area which can be very marshy if it has rained. Here you’ll find old quarries secured by a wire fence, at a place called ‘la Carrouée’. Continue along this path, which passes through a small wood.
(3) At the junction, turn right and climb the gentle slope, passing under an electricity pylon.
Follow this path, which runs alongside a line of trees on the left (photo). Join a path coming in from the left. Ignore the first path on the right, taking a sort of three-way junction slightly to the left to enter some old nurseries (photo). The first houses of Saint-Laurent come into view and a path between a high wall on the left and gardens on the right leads to the departmental road.
(4) Cross the D59 and enter the village; turn right onto Rue du Muguet towards Gernelle (D979) and you’ll arrive in front of the Maison des Produits Ardennais and the agricultural college. Continue to the junction.
(5) Turn right and head back down towards Ville-sur-Lumes. Once you reach the departmental road, follow it to the left as far as the roundabout, then turn right into the arboretum and the Gallo-Roman vicus to return to the starting point (S/E).
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