Château Bayard

The Château Bayard is a castle in the commune of Pontcharra in the département of Isère (Rhône-Alpes, France), and dominates the valley of Grésivaudan in the Dauphiné Alps.

Château Bayard has been listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since 1915.

The castle has housed the Bayard museum since 1975; it presents the life and the myth of Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, the famous "knight without fear and without reproach" (French: le chevalier sans peur et sans reproche).

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