Quick Tour of Portmeirion
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Sir Clough had made up his mind from an early age that he wanted to become an architect. He dreamt of one day building his ideal village on some romantic coastal site. Eventually he realized his dream and said of Portmeirion, "I wanted to show that one could develop even a very beautiful place without defiling it and that, if you did things with sufficient care and skill, you could even enhance what was given as a backdrop. I wanted to show people, with a sort of light -opera approach, that architecture could be fun, could be entertaining, interesting, intriguing." |
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Surrounding the village on three sides are seventy acres of subtropical woodland gardens known as the "gwyllt". These contain many century-old rhododendrons, camellias and magnolias which flourish in the frost-free climate. Miles of paths crisscross the woods, leading to rocky coves and sandy beaches all along the headland. |
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