Tucked away within the county of Gwynedd is a village like no other in Wales, Portmeirion.

Designed and built by Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925-1975, this quirky holiday village stands far apart from it’s surrounding localities, drawing inspiration from the brightly coloured Italian fishing villages of the Mediterranean.


Clough built Portmeirion with the intention of it becoming a holiday park for anybody to enjoy, he wanted to show that a naturally beautiful site could be developed without spoiling the surrounding landscape.



These days Portmeirion is one of Wale’s most visited attractions, bringing in around 250,000 people a year. This popularity has undoubtedly been boosted by the use of Portmeirion’s as the mysterious Village in the popular 1960’s surrealist TV show The Prisoner. Besides the village itself, Portmeirion now encompasses wide tracks of exotic gardens and sandy beaches, effectively emulating the village’s Italianate setting. Many of the houses are now holiday homes, let out to those who wish to spend a night or so within this unusual little village.


Personally this place felt less Italian and more artistic to me, its a mix of Renaissance of modernism, the village feels like an artist’s fresco, odd but fascinating. In addition besides the endless Prisoner merchandise there is a good deal of local products that are sold there, including mead. Now for someone with an insatiable sweet tooth, I certainly took quiet a fancy to this supposed ‘sweet’ or ‘dessert’ wine.
And then a tried some……it wasn’t sweet….I hated it……I was very disappointed…..my search for a sweet alcoholic beverage continues. Besides that Portmeririon is very nice and longer walk around the gardens is advised.

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A beautiful place!
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My husband and I visited Portmeirion a few years ago when we toured Wales on our Honda Goldwing, and loved it. It is an intriguing place. Your pictures brought back good memories. Thanks!
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Glad you liked it, that Honda Goldwing must of seen quite a lot of amazing sights
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Artists gone mad. Then again, we need that. Quite an extraordinary site!
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Surely the best artists are always a little mad 🙂
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My first date with my first husband was an all-night showing of back to back instalments of The Prisoner, with which he was obsessed at The Scala in King’s Cross which had just been converted from a failed Primatarium to a cinema. It smelled oddly of gibbons. I learned to hate Portmeirion that night. Three and a half decades later, I still have never visited. Perhaps it is over due …
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Perhaps you’ll enjoy it, I can assure you it doesn’t smell of gibbons at least
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It works for me as art. Not really Italian. And I was scared witless by the Prisioner. That bubble chasing escapees gave me the willies.
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Yes I wouldn’t call it Italian but its pretty place nonetheless. I haven’t seen any of the Prisoner accept for a spoof they did on the Simpsons once so I know of the infamous bubble
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