The Château de Joyeuse Garde is the site of a castle associated with

Joyous Gard Joyous Gard (French ''Joyeuse Garde'' and other variants) is a castle featured in the Matter of Britain literature of the legend of King Arthur. It was introduced in the 13th-century French Prose ''Lancelot'' as the home and formidable fortress ...

from

Arthurian legend The Matter of Britain is the body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain and Brittany and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur. It was one of the three great Wester ...

.Caird, Monica (1906). ''Romantic Cities of Provence.'' C. Scribner's Sons Its

ruins Ruins () are the remains of a civilization's architecture. The term refers to formerly intact structures that have fallen into a state of partial or total disrepair over time due to a variety of factors, such as lack of maintenance, deliberate ...

in the town of La Forest-Landerneau in

Brittany Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period ...

date to the 6th century.Barker, Edward Harrison (1890). ''Wayfaring in France.'' R. Bentley & Son It was listed as a '' monument historique'' on 6 October 1975. The castle is the subject of " Joyeuse Garde", an 1859 poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

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Castles in Brittany Ruined castles in France Monuments historiques of Finistère Chateau De Joyeuse Garde {{france-castle-stub