Walking through the gates of Portmeirion is a Dorothy arrives in Oz moment: Wales in technicolour; Italy on acid. If I squint a bit and edit out the cold, spitty drizzle of a late-February day ...

In the welcome message she distributes to visitors, she writes: “Afficionados will know this is not a to scale map ... of Portmeirion, an Italianate resort village located in Wales and nestled ...

Described as a ‘folly tourist village’ in Gwynedd in North Wales, Portmeirion lies on the estuary of the River Dwyryd, two miles from Pothmadog. Designed and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis ...

Portmeirion has had many famous visitors including ... visited in 1956 as part of his only visit to his ancestral home, Wales. In 1966, Patrick McGoohan, the driving force behind the series ...

More than a folly or private monument, from its inception, Portmeirion was intended to be a demonstration of how a naturally beautiful site could be developed sympathetically. Interact is your ...