Portmeirion
Portmeirion, LL48 6ET Tel: 01766 770228
portmeirion-village.com
Portmeirion is a true oddity. A lavish Italianate village nestling incongruously on the coast of Snowdonia in Wales.
Portmeirion was a labour of love of the Welsh architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis; having bought the site in the 1920s for what was then under £5000, he set up developing the neglected wilderness into a Mediterranean-style resort, full of ornate buildings, attractive gardens and a central piazza.
The resultant other-worldly quality has proved inspirational too many: George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Ernest Hemmingway and Bertrand Russell all spent time in Portmeirion and Noel Coward wrote his best known comedy, Blithe Spirit, there in 1941. The village has also regularly featured in films and television programmes, most notably the cult 1960s show, The Prisoner, which was filmed on location there. Today, it remains a popular and peculiarly romantic destination. Visitors can stay at the Hotel Portmeirion which has boasts 14 rooms in its main building as well as several further rooms and suites spread throughout the surrounding village; while those with more contemporary tastes should opt for rooms at the Castell Deudraeth.
Portmeirion was a labour of love of the Welsh architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis; having bought the site in the 1920s for what was then under £5000, he set up developing the neglected wilderness into a Mediterranean-style resort, full of ornate buildings, attractive gardens and a central piazza.
The resultant other-worldly quality has proved inspirational too many: George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Ernest Hemmingway and Bertrand Russell all spent time in Portmeirion and Noel Coward wrote his best known comedy, Blithe Spirit, there in 1941. The village has also regularly featured in films and television programmes, most notably the cult 1960s show, The Prisoner, which was filmed on location there. Today, it remains a popular and peculiarly romantic destination. Visitors can stay at the Hotel Portmeirion which has boasts 14 rooms in its main building as well as several further rooms and suites spread throughout the surrounding village; while those with more contemporary tastes should opt for rooms at the Castell Deudraeth.
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This place is bizarre but kind of beautiful - definitely worth seeing.
elizajane, Toronto 15/6/2007
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