 The central Piazza and Gloriette.
 Portmeirion and the Loggia as viewed from the sands in the estuary.
 The Amis Reunis (stone boat) Portmeirion is an Italianate resort village on the coast of Snowdonia in Wales. It has served as a location for many films and television shows, notably The Prisoner. Despite repeated claims that it was based on the real town of Portofino, Italy, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, Portmeirion's designer, denied this, stating only that he wanted to pay tribute to the atmosphere of the Mediterranean. A part of Portmeirion. ...
A part of Portmeirion. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 485 KB) Portmeirion as viewed from the sands. ...
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Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 493 KB) The Stone Ship at Portmeirion. ...
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The north ridge of Tryfan (seen on the left in this picture) makes an enjoyable scramble in Snowdonia. ...
For an explanation of often confusing terms such as Great Britain, Britain, United Kingdom, England and Wales and England, see British Isles (terminology). ...
The Prisoner was a 1967 UK fantasy-drama television series, starring Patrick McGoohan. ...
Portofinos small harbour Portofino is a small Italian fishing village and tourist resort located in the province of Genoa on the Italian Riviera. ...
Village Hall, Stone. ...
The village is located two miles east of Porthmadog at the entrance to the Lleyn Peninsula, and one mile from the Minffordd station serving both the Ffestiniog Railway (narrow gauge steam) and Arriva Trains Wales. Porthmadog, (Pronounced Port Madock), known locally as Port, is a small coastal town located in Gwynedd, in north-west Wales, traditionally part of Caernarfonshire. ...
The Lleyn peninsula also known by its Welsh name of the LlÅ·n extends from north west Wales. ...
Translation meaning Lip of the Road There are 2 stations co-located at right angles to each other. ...
Double fairlie Merddyn Emrys with train Double Fairlie Earl of Merionedd at Tanybwlch At Blaenau Ffestiniog Minffordd Station Historic coaches, including 1897-built ex-Lynton and Barnstaple Railway no 14 (centre) at Tanybwlch. ...
An Arriva train in Denmark Arriva plc is a UK-based international public transport operator and vehicle rental company, headquartered in Sunderland. ...
Williams-Ellis designed and constructed the village between 1925 and 1975. He incorporated fragments of demolished buildings, including works by a number of other distinguished architects. Portmeirion's architectural bricolage and deliberately fanciful nostalgia have been noted as an influence on the development of postmodernism in architecture in the late twentieth century. 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
Bricolage – from the French-language verb bricoler, meaning to tinker or to fiddle – is that languages equivalent of the English phrase do-it-yourself. Bricolage is also often contrasted to engineering: building by trial and error rather than based on theory. ...
One may feel nostalgic for the familiar routine of school, conveniently forgetting the painful experiences such as bullying. ...
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The main building of the hotel, and the cottages called "White Horses", "Mermaid" and "The Salutation" had been a private estate called Aber Ia, developed in the 1850s, itself on the site of a foundry and boatyard which was active in the late 18th century. The site (and very minor remains) of a mediaeval castle (known variously as Castell Deudraeth, Castell Gwain Goch and Castell Aber Iau) are in the woods just outside the village proper, recorded by Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales) in 1188. Giraldus Cambrensis (c. ...
The grounds contain an important collection of rhododendrons and other exotic plants in a wild-garden setting which was begun before Williams-Ellis' time and has continued to be developed since his death. This article is about the plant. ...
Portmeirion is now owned by a charitable trust, and has always been run as a hotel, which uses the majority of the buildings as hotel rooms or self-catering cottages, together with various shops, a cafe, tea-room and restaurant. Day visits can be made on payment of an admission charge.
Noel Coward wrote Blithe Spirit while staying in the Fountain 2 (Upper Fountain) suite at Portmeirion. Sir Noel Peirce Coward (spelling his forename Noël with the diaeresis was an affectation of later life) (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. ...
Blithe Spirit (1941) is a comic play written by Noel Coward. ...
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