Chapelle du Planet” hiking trail”

Name: Chapelle du Planet” hiking trail"
Address: Place des Tilleuls, Belvédère, 06450, FR
Telephone: + 33 (0)4 93 03 51 66

This one-hour walk will take you to the first heights of the village, in an area that is almost flat, as its name suggests, and also boasts a pretty chapel.
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From Place des Tilleuls, just opposite the town hall, take Rue Marcel Ferrier (who died for France on 26 July 1944), Rue St Esprit and Rue du Moulin Supérieur to reach the wash-house (b.88). The path runs alongside beautiful gardens and follows an irrigation canal, which is used in winter.
It's worth remembering the importance of these local gardens, called ‘ort’ in local dialect, which provide seasonal vegetables for the family. Not forgetting the work of the old rios to bring water to these plots of land through long irrigation canals, which testifies to their stubbornness and their attachment to this land.
After passing the drinking water reservoirs and crossing the irrigation canal (b.264), leave the path that leads to the Gordolasque road and climb towards the La Colle district. Reach a sharp bend in the small route des Blancons and its electricity transformer (979m - b.290).
You will come across the ruins of Fort St Jean, with its buried structure, built on the site of the former chapel of the same name in 1932 and capable of housing around fifteen men. It was lightly armed and its role was limited to observation, covered by the larger fortifications of Flaut and Gordolon on the opposite bank of the Gordolasque.
According to some researchers, the Fort district could be the site of the first village, of which an ancient pointed gateway remains.
Head south down the path, passing the chapel of N-D de Fenestre (1758) built on the Planet site, on the edge of the annual pilgrimage route (26 July) leading to the sanctuary of the Madonna de Fenestre.
This chapel was built in 1758 by Count Jean-François Raynardi and his wife, who remained barren until that date, to thank the Virgin Mary for granting them a male child. Their son François-Félix, the last Count of Belvédère, was born on 9 May 1758 (rf: le Patrimoine des communes des A-M de Flohic éditions).
Pass near the chapel of St Roch and the cemetery (b.87) to continue along the cemetery road and turn left along the path to reach the rue St Antoine, which leads to the centre of the village.