The world’s loneliest house sits on an isolated island two hours from the nearest town or airport.
It’s been dubbed as the world’s loneliest house, and now visitors have been banished from entering for months at a time.Skalmen is the farthest-flung islet in the archipelago it belongs to and is so secluded visitors are banned for months at a time.
And to add to its seclusion between May and late July each year, the island becomes a protected bird reserve that’s off-limits to visitors.But the mini island – which is part of Norway – proved far more popular than you might think and was subject to a bidding war.It sits at the northern tip of the Western Norway region, west of Trondheim.Andreas, from Tønsberg, south of Oslo, co-owns a firm that buys and sells property.
Andreas and Mona plan to “completely refurbish the building” but they know they’ll have to shed more cash in the process. It comes as an abandoned palace on the Italian coastline has been left to rot and crumble away a century after it was built.
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