Books, CD's & DVD's

Sir Clough’s personal account of how and why he built the village remains the best available introduction to Portmeirion. It includes interesting anecdotes and lively descriptions of the evolution of the village. 96 pages printed on fine quality paper with a line drawing frontispiece, 32 colour / black and white photographic illustrations, decorative endpapers, black & white headpieces,...

Celtic Cuisine This collection of Celtic recipes from Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, the Isle of Man, Cornwall and Galicia covers a range of traditional dishes rooted in the Celtic past together with others that are at the forefront of modern cooking. Recipes include Boxty Potato Pancakes, Cranachan, Haggis, Roast Lamb, Welsh Rarebit, Saffron Cake, Isle of Man Queenies, and Poulet au Cidres. ...

This DVD contains the presentation which is shown in Portmeirion's Audio Visual Theatre, in which the architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis narrates the story of the creation of Portmeirion Village. The Hotel Portmeirion was opened by Clough Williams-Ellis at Easter 1926. Clough spent the next fifty years creating the surrounding village of Portmeirion to demonstrate how sympathetic development could...

Foreword by Jools Holland The book "Portmeirion" was published to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the opening of the resort in 1926. Lavishly illustrated with many unpublished and rare photographs, plans and drawings, it is the first book to cover the whole story of the village, the extensive gardens both at Portmeirion and Plas Brondanw, the Williams-Ellis family home, Portmeirion Pottery as well...

The famous North Wales resort of Portmeirion has appeared in cinema films, television dramas, music 'promo videos', advertising commercials, documentaries, travel shows and many other types of screen presentations. From short news reports to live events coverage, from full length movies to archive newsreel and from breakfast or morning programmes to foreign TV broadcasts, the 'fantasy village' has...

The novel which won the Prose Medal at the 1992 National Eisteddfod and which was acclaimed as a masterpiece by all three adjudicators. First published in 1992. Nofel sy'n defnyddio delweddau o fytholeg Geltaidd gyda chefndir Pan-Ewropeaidd iddi, a ddisgrifiwyd fel gwaith 'awdur digamsyniol ei ddawn a rhyfeddol ei gamp', gan un o'r beirniaid. Enillydd y Fedal Ryddiaith yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 1992....

The 8 long walks from the series, around 12-16 miles in length, are divided into 15 shorter walks between 4 and 9 miles long, making them more accessible to less experienced walkers, with a note that the second walk of each pair could be done as a direct continuation of the first by more committed walkers. List of walks, covering a very good spread of geographical locations around Wales: Abereiddy...