The puy de Loule vineyard

Guidebook with maps/step-by-step

Step 1 : From the start sign at Place de la Croix, walk up Rue des Combrailles and immediately right into Rue de la Fontaine (washhouse), which continues along a grassy path. At the first crossroads, turn left and, at the next, go straight ahead until you reach the T-junction.

Step 2 : Bend left (view of Puy de Dôme). Continue straight ahead through vineyards and orchards until you reach a tarmac road. Turn right for 50 m (view of Combronde) and turn right onto the first track. At the crossroads, continue straight ahead to the fork.

Step 3 : Go up to the left. At the T junction, turn right. At the crossroads, continue uphill and take the first track on the left. Turn right and climb to the top of the Puy de l’Oule (50 m), along the same slightly sloping path (panoramic view of the Puys chain, the Combrailles, the Limagne plain, the Montagne Bourbonnaise, the Livradois-Forez and the Gergovie plateau). Turn right again. Ignore the right-hand path, pass under the high-voltage power line and continue to the next T-junction opposite the orchard.

Step 4 : Take the grassy track on the right, then turn left onto the first track. Continue downhill, ignoring the two right-hand paths until you reach a T-junction. Bear right. At the crossroads, go straight on to point 1. Turn left and return to the starting point in the opposite direction.

Proposed and managed by the Conseil départemental du Puy-de-Dôme – PDIPR.