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Every stroll is figured as a map on which several symbols are present, such as colored texts, lines, drawings, and pictograms representing monuments... All these symbols have a meaning presented below. Moreover, pictures are used as symbols of difficulty levels, tourist points of interest, and characteristics of sections.

Map symbols

Colour of texts

The names of "Sentiers de Grande Randonnée" (GR© - long-distance footpaths) are in red : GR65.

Roads are in grey : D526.

Streams, lakes and sea are in blue : Le Lot.

Hamlets, villages and towns are in orange : Rodez.

The names of forests are dark green : Forêt domaniale d'Aubrac.

The remarkable buildings are in red scrub : Mairie.

Lines and drawings

Direction :

Section limit :

Road direction :

Footpath :

Track :

Road :

Railway :

Stream :

Lake :

Marsh, peat bog :

Sea :

Salt marsh : SaltMarsh

Forest :

Scree :

Glacier and névée :

Hamlet :

Village :

Urban area :

Tunnel :

Building :

Special area :

Pictograms

Dam :

Basilica :

Bunker :

Calvary :

Quarry : - :

Chapel :

Water tower :

Castle :

Crucifix :

Depression :

Dolmen :

Church :

Fountain :

Galloroman :

Cave :

Manor :

Menhir :

Watermill :

Windmill :

Museum :

Panorama :

Car park :

Observation post :

Telecom tower :

Electric pylon :

Ruins :

Refuge :

Summit :

Subway station :

Statue :

Tower :

Village member to the association of the Most Beautiful Villages in France :

Symbols of the difficulty levels

Walk

MB

Riding

Ski

Handicapped

Easy

Quite easy

Slightly difficult

Difficult

Impossible

Unknown

Symbols for tourism themes

Flora

Trees and forest : 

Terrestrial plants : 

Aquatic plants : 

Parks and gardens : 

Fauna

Mammals : 

Birds : 

Fishes, amphibians, reptiles : 

Invertebrates : 

Geology

Volcanism : 

Erosion : 

Panorama : 

Fossils and miscellaneous : 

Patrimony

Prehistory : 

Antiquity : 

Middle Ages : 

Renaissance : 

Baroque and Classicism : 

Modern and Contemporary : 

Symbols of section characteristics

Slope up : 

Slope down : 

Highway : 

Closed fence : 

Opened fence : 

Barrier or chicane : 

Rocks : 

Stairs : 

Ladder : 

Ledge : 

Footbridge : 

Ford : 

Bank : 

Tunnel : 

Santiago de Compostela way :