Italian Village... on the coast of North Wales
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It looks like a typical ancient village nestling on the Italian coast, yet the strange folly was built this century on a peninsular in Cardigan Bay, North Wales. Architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis spent 50 years on his pet project by nabbing as many bits as he could from dilapidated buildings. Sir Clough said he built it “using a gay, light-opera sort of approach”.
The result is 50 buildings round a central piazza, including a Campanile bell tower and gilded Pantheon dome. Pastel-painted Mediterranean loggias with terracotta tiles are dotted around pathways down to the harbour. Unfortunately when you get to the water’s edge what greets you is not the sparkling blue Med... but a murky brown tidal estuary.
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