page_title: Fort-la-Latte
section_title: Barbican
hierarchical_section_title: Fort-la-Latte / Description / Barbican
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Détail du premier châtelet. On aperçoit la rainure pour laisser passer la herse et la marque des portes de protection supplémentaire (à droite de l'arche, sur la pierre basse et allongée).
context_page_description: Fort la Latte or Castle of the Rock Goyon is a castle in the northeast of Brittany, about 4 kilometres southeast of Cap Fréhel and about 35 kilometres west of Saint-Malo, in the commune of Plévenon, Côtes-d'Armor.
  It is a famous tourist attraction of the bay of St Malo and the Emerald coast. This impressive castle was built on a small piece of land at the Bay of the Fresnay in the 13th century. Various films have been shot at this site, including The Vikings by Richard Fleischer with Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis. It also features in the French band Manau's video for "La Tribu de Dana." A much larger, fictionalized version of the fort appears in the 2015 animated film April and the Extraordinary World.
context_section_description: The portcullis was in the groove and the base stone supported the door. The first gatehouse of the barbican is provided with a drawbridge reconstituted in working order. At the time of its construction in the fourteenth century, it was also protected by a portcullis and a double-leaf door. Completely destroyed with a cannon shot during the second capture of the castle, it was subsequently rebuilt.
  In front of this first gatehouse, there is also a battering ram and a pillory.
  The barbican is decorated with a small medieval garden. A "Bricole", a kind of catapult, as well as a panorama of the bay of St Malo are also present.
caption: entrance of the first gatehouse
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