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The village is best known as the setting for the 1960s TV series "[[The Prisoner]]", featuring John McGoohan as a [[British]] [[spy]] undergoing mind alterations, incarceration, disorientation and general weirdness. | The village is best known as the setting for the 1960s TV series "[[The Prisoner]]", featuring John McGoohan as a [[British]] [[spy]] undergoing mind alterations, incarceration, disorientation and general weirdness. | ||
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Revision as of 02:47, April 3, 2008
Portmeirion is a bizarre village on the Welsh coast in Snowdonia.
It was designed and built by eccentric architect Sir Brian Clough Williams-Ellis.
The village is a composite of Italian baroque, William Morris Arts and Crafts and more unusual features.
It was opened in 1926 as a tourist attraction and later as a pottery center.
The village is best known as the setting for the 1960s TV series "The Prisoner", featuring John McGoohan as a British spy undergoing mind alterations, incarceration, disorientation and general weirdness.