Porthmadog
Porthmadog well-known in your area as "Port", is a little Welsh seaside community as well as former area, currently in the area of Penrhyndeudraeth in the Eifionydd location of Gwynedd. It has been so meant formally since 1974. Before 1972 in the management county of Caernarfonshire, it lies 5 miles (8 kilometres) east of Criccieth, 11 miles (18 km) south-west of Blaenau Ffestiniog, 25 miles (40 kilometres) north of Dolgellau as well as 20 miles (32 km) south of Caernarfon. It had a population of 4,185 (2011 census). It established in the 19th century as a port exporting slate to England and somewhere else, yet because the decline of the industry it has come to be a shopping center and also vacationer destination. It has very easy access to Snowdonia National Park and is the terminus of the Ffestiniog Railway. The 1987 National Eisteddfod was held in Porthmadog. It consists of the nearby towns of Borth-y-Gest, Morfa Bychan and also Tremadog.