Création Création récente, la forêt de Brocéliande a été inventée de toutes pièces au centre de l’Armorique par Chrétien de Troyes au XIIème siècle, premier romancier de la littérature française.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Assimilée volontiers à la forêt de Paimpont, Brocéliande est maintenant le nom d’une communauté de communes.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Pour découvrir les trésors de la forêt du roi Arthur, une halte dans ce musée imaginaire à ciel ouvert s’impose.

Le Val sans retour se rejoint en remontant le ruisseau qui alimente le Miroir aux fées. Vous entrez dans l’enfer où les chevaliers qui s’étaient montrés infidèles étaient condamnés à errer sans fin par la fée Morgane.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Le Tombeau du géant, pourtant singulier, ce site n’est pas entré dans la légende arthurienne de la forêt de Brocéliande.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A l’origine, il s’agit d’un alignement néolithique fait de quatre menhirs qui ont été réutilisés à l’âge du Bronze pour former une sépulture.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          La Fontaine de Barenton : c’est là que Merlin aurait rencontré Viviane. Un site de rencontre sulfureux auprès duquel certains forment des vœux …

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Les grosses bulles d’azote qui viennent de temps en temps crever à la surface de l’eau donnent au lieu un caractère étrange.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Et il paraît qu’en versant de cette eau sur le perron de la fontaine, on déclenche un orage ... Beaucoup s’y essaient !                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Le château de Trécesson se trouve entre la lisière sud-ouest de la forêt et le bourg de Campénéac (35).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          S’il S'il n’entre pas non plus dans la liste des sites arthuriens de la forêt de Brocéliande, avec les tours qui flanquent son entrée fortifiée et ses hauts murs qui jaillissent de l’étang, le lieu ne manque pas de caractère, hanté paraît-il par la Dame blanche de Trécesson.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   De jour, les jardins du château sont ouverts à la visite.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               La Fontaine de jouvence, dont les eaux feraient gagner un an de vie à ceux qui en consomment.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Certains des sites font référence au roi Arthur, au diable, à la Vierge, et même à Gargantua. Elle est caractérisée par des amoncellements de gros rochers disposés de façon chaotique.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          La rivière d’Argent la traverse, ainsi nommée en raison des mines argentifères, exploitées localement jusqu’à la fin du XIX^ème siècle.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Le moulin du Chaos, porte d’entrée du Huelgoat, la « haute forêt  ». Ici, la nature est enveloppante, elle capte les sens, procure une autre dimension à l’espace et à l’existence, narre la vie intime des fées, les aventures d’Arthur et de ses chevaliers  ...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Chaotique, Chaotique, la forêt du Huelgoat l’est toute sens dessus dessous, avec ses éboulis de boules de granit, aux dimensions impressionnantes. Un « sentier pittoresque  », aux allures de labyrinthe recouvert de mousses et de fougères, se faufile entre ces blocs.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Ce paysage de grosses boules de granit s’explique par un long et lent processus d’érosion.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          On raconte que ce serait Gargantua, mécontent de la pitance offerte par les autochtones, qui aurait accompli sa vengeance en bombardant la forêt de cailloux colossaux...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           " Une légende bretonne de plus " !