by its creator, Clough Williams-Ellis

An Italianate village planted on the coast of North Wales, colourful and extravagant - an experiment in town planning, or one man's romantic folly?
Clough Williams-Ellis, architect, writer, and conservationist, is now eighty-six. "I wanted to show that you could in fact develop even a very beautiful place without defiling it - that you could even enhance what God had given you as a site to start with. And at Portmeirion I felt He'd given me everything possible."
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