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 ...

Over 10,000 people are expected at the Italianate village Portmeirion for the second Festival No. 6, with Manic Street Preachers one of the headline acts.

The famous Welsh village of Portmeirion will be “Turning Japanese” on 9 December, when post-punk pop legends The Vapors appear for a one-off Christmas show as part of a series of events to ...

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 ...

Portmeirion rooms are self catered, with the welcome touch of a complimentary carafe of sherry found in each room. O n a dedicated TV channel, episodes of T he Prisoner play continuously.

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 ...

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 ...