LA RANDO DU GÉOLOGUE

Start
ALBAS
Finish
ALBAS

Last update 18/02/2025

Description

Cultural Vignobles et Découvertes

The many explanatory signs alongside the path, informing you of the local geological history. Other information boards can be found in front of Albas town hall.

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Technical sheet

Start

PARKING DU LAC, D106
11360 ALBAS

Circuit stages

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1

Leave from the car park at the lake on the D106 towards Cascastel. Cross the D106, go downhill, round the lake and climb the hill a few steps. Head towards the village using paths and
paths. At the entrance to the village, continue straight on until you reach the D40.
> You can visit the village on the right (all the interpretation
interpretation panels in the square in front of the town hall).

2

Turn left onto the D40 towards Villerouge-Termenès
(yellow-green ‘La Ronde’ signs).

3

Climb the narrow track, cross the ridge (ruins of the mill) and go straight down into the valley along the stream.

4

Cross the stream to the right (leaving the yellow-green route for ‘LaRonde”), climb the secondary combe and pass to the north of the Serre d’Azeu on a rollercoaster track.

5

Leave the track and take the path to the left (east) towards Roucadeu. It runs along the ridge (a short round trip leads to a 360° viewpoint).
Continue along the path through the wasteland (ruined sheepfold on the left). It widens and begins the descent.

6

Leave the track and take the path on the right, through the garrigue. Go down into the vineyards. Turn right onto the D40 for 50 m and, after the culvert, turn left and cross the Prat stream on the footbridge.
Continue right through the garrigue along the stream before crossing it again on the cross it again on the concrete bridge.

7

Go left into the gardens.
> You will come to the Fount-Fresco spring.
Go down the road on the left for 400 m, then take the path on the right
take the track on the right and return to the path you came on. Take the D106 to the car park.

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