The windmills and capitelles of Faugeres

The windmills and capitelles of Faugeres 4.7km/2H , Yellow markers. This is not a difficult walk but there is some climbing at the start of the walk. The walk begins at the car park in Faugeres (the are 3 car parks but we tend to park at the selles de fete one. Now head uphill following the yellow markers. At the top of the hill after the last house is a small path on your left (The muleteers path), take this up through the oak woods to reach the windmills. Normally there are some very fine views of the area from the viewing tower, but not today, at least the rain stopped for us. There are several picnic benches here too and normally an abundance of wildflowers, even the early purple orchids are late this year. Take the track down the other side of the hill, following the yellow markers and then turn left at the junction. Soon you will reach the stone capitelles, once used by farmers and shepherds. Do go down to look at the first two capitelles on your right as they are all named and have their own history. Panels tell you about them. Now turn left next to the green water container and turn right at the next junction. There are more capitelles to your right and later to your left is a lovely village of restored capitelles. The zigzag takes you down (normally wonderful views here) to a small track to your right (you can keep to the main track if you would rather). The smaller path is where a chick pea farm once lived in his capitelle. Now you reach the The Frog. It's a junction of ancient routes that looks from above like a frog. There is also a stone frog here. Take the smaller track marked yellow back into the village. I take the yellow/red route down through the village as it's the most interesting.