Château de Joyeuse Garde

The Château de Joyeuse Garde is the site of a castle associated with Joyous Gard from Arthurian legend. Its ruins in the town of La Forest-Landerneau in Brittany date to the 6th century. 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.