In Southern Europe, houses are on sale for the price of a cup of coffee. Götene is a locality in the Götene municipality, Västra Götaland County, 200 miles southwest of Stockholm, and it is running a similar scheme: selling 29 plots for just 1 krona per square meter. Götene municipality is part of the Läckö-Kinnekulle tourism area: the two most notable sights in the municipality are the hikers’ favourite mountain/ridge Kinnekulle (with 306 meters the highest point in the county) and the village Husaby, with an old church and church well, where the first Christian king of Sweden, Olof Skötkonung, is believed to have been baptized. Götene is a rural area with 5,000 residents living in the main town, and 13,000 in the wider municipality: located on the shores of Lake Vänern (not only Sweden’s largest lake but also the biggest in Scandinavia and the entire EU, at around 10 times the size of Lake Constance) it’s rural Sweden at its finest. Götene is also home to two UNESCO-rated sites: the Platåbergens Geopark and Lake Vänern Archipelago and Mount Kinnekulle Biosphere.
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