VitaKrala

Hidden in the Swedish countryside near Haddebo, Vita Krala is a bed & breakfast, restaurant and farm shop set on a farm from the late 1700s. Chris and Frank restored the house with old techniques and natural materials — clay walls that hold the quiet, three guest rooms surrounded by forest, and a kitchen shaped almost entirely by what grows in the garden outside it. Restoration here is not added to the experience. It is woven into the way the place exists.

Why it is in the collection Vita Krala is the clearest example of what Sanctuary Found means by restorative hospitality. A garden that provides the seasonal ingredients. A kitchen shaped by what grows nearby. Rooms surrounded by forest and quiet. A slower rhythm that invites guests to pause, breathe and reconnect. The house Three double rooms in a farmhouse from the late 1700s, restored to modern comfort with old techniques, natural and sustainable materials, and respect for the history of the farm. The bedrooms have clay walls. Every room includes organic homemade breakfast, linen, towels and a bathrobe. A fourth room is kept for seminars and private dinners, and the whole house can be taken for a course or gathering. The table A single daily menu, cooked from produce bought locally or grown in the farm’s own herb and kitchen garden. Breakfast is homemade yogurt from locally sourced raw milk with rhubarb compote, bread from Lokal, marmalades and jellies made in the house, organic butter, homemade rhubarb saft, and tomatoes from Karinstorp. There is a wood-fired hot tub in the garden. The setting The village of Haddebo sits in the forest country of Närke, secluded from everyday stress but reachable from Sweden’s most populous areas — about 2.5 hours from Stockholm, under 4 from Gothenburg, 50 minutes from Örebro airport. The large garden and the forest behind the house are the point. Chanterelles come up on the forest floor in late summer; the garden is harvested and preserved through autumn. Rooms are booked directly with the house, by phone.