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Extract from the Porthmadog Travel Guides:
Located right at the point where the Llyn peninsula turns sharply south down the Cambrian coast,
PORTHMADOG
was once the busiest slate port in North Wales. Nowadays, it's a pleasant enough town to spend a night or two, although it sadly makes little of its situation on the north bank of the vast, mountain-backed estuary. Two things it does make a fuss about are the Italianate folly of Portmeirion, two miles east of town, and the Ffestiniog Railway that originally carried slate down from Blaenau Ffestiniog through verdant mountain scenery. Porthmadog would never have existed at all without the entrepreneurial ventures of a Lincolnshire...
read the whole Porthmadog Travel Guides...
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