Portmeirion North Wales - The Prisoner location
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Portmeirion, in North Wales, is a resort, where no one has ever lived. It is famous as the location where the TV cult series 'The Prisoner' was made.
The real place was built by a self-taught Welsh architect named Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, out of architectural salvage, between the 1920s and 1970s, loosely based on his memories of trips to Portofino. Including a pagoda-shaped Chinoiserie gazebo, some Gothic obelisks, eucalyptus groves, a crenellated castle, a Mediterranean bell tower, a Jacobean town hall, and an Art Deco cylindrical watchtower.
The real place was built by a self-taught Welsh architect named Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, out of architectural salvage, between the 1920s and 1970s, loosely based on his memories of trips to Portofino. Including a pagoda-shaped Chinoiserie gazebo, some Gothic obelisks, eucalyptus groves, a crenellated castle, a Mediterranean bell tower, a Jacobean town hall, and an Art Deco cylindrical watchtower.
