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 " !                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              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.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Les mégalithes - ou tumuli - que l’on trouve en Bretagne impressionnent par leurs dimensions et leur signification. Mais tous les mystères les entourant n’ont pas été révélés  …

(photo ci-dessus) : Ce site présente d’étonnantes ressemblances avec des cités d’Amérique centrale, mais il s’agit du cairn du Petit Mont à Arzon, à la pointe de la presqu’île du Rhuys dans le golfe du Morbihan. Les premières pierres auraient été érigées vers 4 500 avant J.-C.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Dans l’imaginaire collectif, ces monuments sont souvent associés aux peuples celtes ou gaulois. Un anachronisme encore ancré dans les esprits. Les mégalithes datent toutefois de plusieurs millénaires avant l’ère chrétienne tandis que la civilisation celte en Armorique remonte à 600 ans seulement avant J.-C. ! Pourquoi ces erreurs historiques ? Parce qu’il a fallu attendre les techniques de datation au carbone pour pouvoir déterminer l’âge de ces pierres.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Le site de Kermario (Carnac, Morbihan) représente un alignement mégalithique de menhirs, de dolmens et d'allées couvertes réparti sur plus de quatre kilomètres. Cet ensemble est parmi les plus célèbres et les plus impressionnants de cette période et aurait concerné près de 4 000 pierres levées.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Le romantisme et la science faisaient  bon ménage pour trouver un sens aux alignements de  pierres.                                                                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Gavrinis est un îlot de 15 hectares dans le golfe du Morbihan. Il présente un tumulus parementé de pierres sèches, long d’une centaine de mètres et culminant à 24 mètres d’altitude. Ce monument funéraire mégalithique (IV^èmesiècle avant J.-C.) est l’un des plus exceptionnels connus à ce jour.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Le caractère sacré de ces monuments prévaut indubitablement. On sait ainsi qu’il existait un culte aux divinités du labour, de la fécondité et des morts, et que la déesse de l’Agriculture était aussi celle des Morts. Dans le cairn de Gavrinis, des dalles sont entièrement couvertes d’arceaux emboîtés. On pourrait y voir le symbole de vulves multipliées, et en déduire que Gavrinis était un temple dédié à la fécondité ; autrement dit à la survivance de l'espèce.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Dominant la baie de Morlaix (Finistère) depuis le sommet d’une presqu’île escarpée, le cairn de Barnenez compte parmi les plus beaux monuments mégalithiques européens. De dimensions importantes  (75 mètres de long pour 28 de large et 9 de haut), il comporte deux parties renfermant onze chambres funéraires, auxquelles on accède par des allées couvertes de dalles, longues d’une dizaine de mètres chacune. La construction de ce monument, qui date de quatre milliers d’années avant notre ère, a exigé 14 000 tonnes de pierres !                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      A Locmariaquer (Morbihan), le grand menhir brisé d’Er Grah ou Men ar Hroëc’h (Pierre de la fée) est le plus grand d’Europe, soit plus de 20 mètres.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sur le site de Locmariaquer, à côté du Grand Menhir, se dresse un cairn dit la Table des Marchands. La date de naissance de ce dolmen à couloir est fixée aux alentours de 3 900 ans av. J.-C. On pénètre à l’intérieur dos courbé, autant en signe de respect que pour mieux contempler les multiples gravures ornant les dalles, dont cette hache emmanchée et d’énigmatiques représentations géométriques en relief.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Alignement mégalithique de Kerzérho à Erdeven (Morbihan). La légende veut que les korrigans y mènent sabbats et rondes de sorcières.