Servant

Guidebook with maps/step-by-step :

Étape 1 : Go down the lane to the left of the Post Office, which bends to the right and then to the left. After the pond, go up and at the fork, turn right towards Les Paillers. Go through the hamlet and, at the end, take the tarmac track opposite. After 500m, turn right at the fork and go straight through the Bois de la Faye to the D2144. Cross the road and continue on the track opposite, between the guardrails. At the T-junction, turn left through the village of Les Querriaux to the end of the climb.

Étape 2 : Take the tarmac track to the right. At the T-junction, turn right and stay on this track until you reach a crossroads. Keep right until you reach a T-junction in the woods. Turn right and continue straight on until you reach a house (Les Deux-Forts). Follow the tarmac track for 100 m and, at the road, take the left-hand downhill path. Take a footbridge, then cross a ford (or footbridge) and head uphill into the forest. At a fork, turn right and leave the woods, continuing along a grassy track as far as Saugère. Go through the hamlet and continue along the small road opposite until you reach a crossroads. Turn right (pond) and follow the road up to the crossroads in the hamlet of Les Pignons. Turn left onto the track. At the crossroads at Le Buisson (cross) (wide view of the Combrailles and, in the distance, the Chaîne des Puys), continue straight ahead, past Le Creux La Terre and at the entrance to Servant, take the road on the right (Rue des Rochers) as far as the road.

Étape 3 : Cross it and go straight ahead (wooden cross) on a wide dirt track as far as a road (D507) (iron cross). Turn right twice (signposted Favodon) and after 150 m, turn right onto a dirt track alongside a wood. At the road, turn right then, at the fork, climb the tarmac track and continue until you reach a road. Follow the road to the left, cross the hamlet of Fontabourgnon and continue for 200 m. Continue along the road to the right and pass the houses (hamlet of Les Cros). Vaulted well on the left. After the well, continue on the road for another 100 m.

Étape 4 : Leave the road (before a small house on the left) and turn right onto a scrubby track and then a steep path through the forest. Cross a stream and climb left to a road. Turn left and follow it to the hamlet of Les Arbres. Go straight ahead and, at Malmouche, turn right, then, after 100 m, (information table and view of Menat) down a track to the right. At the road, turn left onto the D2144. Cross the road and head towards the Menat road. Climb up to the church (Cluniac site, Romanesque church and cloisters) and return to the starting point.