Just over 20 miles (32km) from Snowdonia National Park is Portmeirion, a village unlike any other in the UK. Framed in mountains and facing an estuary, the village was designed between 1925 and 1976 by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis in the style of a colourful Italian village, with a piazza and Baroque-inspired domes. The village has long attracted playwrights, actors and musicians seeking inspiration, including The War of The Worlds author H.G. Wells.

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