It was time for a latte from one of the kiosks. I sipped it in the shade by the central Piazza and reflected on Sir Clough's main tenet. "I wanted to show people that architecture could be fun ...

By the 1960s, Portmeirion was all but complete, with its assemblage of grand porticos, loggias, domes and spires rescued from the rubbish tip of demolished country houses — and then along came The ...

The run-down mansion — the previous tenant of which had been a recluse, fond of reciting Bible verse to her 15 dogs — had morphed into Hotel Portmeirion. This was merely the start. Over the next 50 ...

World famous village Portmeirion already attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors a year. The picturesque attraction near Penrhyndeudraeth pulls people in with its Mediterranean-like buildings ...

Portmeirion: The flight-free slice of Italy in rural Wales that’s putting sustainability first. Fancy feeling like you’re heading abroad without the emissions of hopping on a plane?

The Italianate village Portmeirion (Image: David Powell). There had even been a tennis court in the middle until Williams-Ellis was persuaded to relocate it and build an ornamental water feature ...