You'd think you had been transported to Italy walking into this village.
But Portmeirion in North Wales is a little slice of Mediterranean heaven on our doorstep. Just two hours from Liverpool, the tourist village is situated on a private peninsula nestled between the Dwyryd estuary and the mountains of Snowdonia.
Portmeirion was built by Welsh architect Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1973 in the style of an Italian Riviera village. It's no surprise therefore that it is full of colour-washed buildings and fantastical architecture.
