The top 5 places in Wales to visit with your motorhome: Portmeirion
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Wales is a beautiful country with a whole host of attractions. Here we continue our top 5 ...
2) Unique Portmeirion
Set on its own private peninsula on the southern shores of Snowdonia, Portmeirion is north Wales’ premier visitor attraction. Used as the set for cult sixties TV series The Prisoner, Portmeirion is not your typical Welsh village, and this is the reason it draws visitors from far and wide each year. It was designed by Welsh architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis in the 1920s, and it represents his fantasy of a classical Italianate village in the Mediterranean, transplanted to a romantic clifftop location. It was also designed to demonstrate how a naturally beautiful place could be developed without spoiling it.You pay an entry fee (£10 for an adult, reduced to £8.50 if bought in advance online) and then step into another world. Feast your eyes on around 50 buildings, pastel-painted, with shuttered windows, a grand piazza, and 70 acres of surrounding woodland and sub-tropical gardens filled with exotic plants. There are woodland paths to explore, and when the tide is low you can walk along the sands. The village has several cafés and restaurants too and is open every day of the year.
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Campsites nearby:
Min-Y-Don Holiday Park
Beach Road, Harlech, Gwynedd LL46 2UG
Tel: 01766 780286 Web: www.minydonholidayhomepark.co.uk Open: 1 March - 3 November
Set below Harlech Castle, few hundred yards from Harlech beach and next to golf course. Spacious, level pitches.
Morfa Bychan Road, Porthmadog, Gwynedd LL49 9UR
Tel: 01766 512205 Web: www.tyddynllwyn.com Open: 1 March - 31 October
Nestled at the foot of Moel-y-Gest mountain, surrounded by wooded countryside. Just three and a half miles from Portmeirion. Electric pitches with all-weather surface. Stunning views.
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