Portmeirion Village

Portmeirion is a tourist village designed and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1975 in the style of an Italian village, and is now owned by a charitable trust.

Sir Clough Williams-Ellis designed and constructed the village of Portmeirion between 1925 and 1975

The main building of the hotel and the cottages “White Horses”, “Mermaid”, and “The Salutation” had been a private estate called Aber Iâ (Welsh: Ice estuary), developed in the 1850s on the site of a late 18th-century foundry and boatyard. Williams-Ellis changed the name (which he had interpreted as “frozen mouth”) to Portmeirion: “Port-” from its place on the coast; “-meirion” from the county of Merioneth (Meirionydd) in which it was sited