the garden room
from €180 / night
24 m² · sleeps 2
view this roomThe sea keepsits own time.
Vela is a six-room stone house above the Adriatic, for mornings that start slow and evenings that refuse to end.
inside the house
Rooms that ask
nothing of you.
Built from island stone in 1908. Restored over three patient years.
Vela was a sail-maker's house before it was anything else. We kept the walls, the shutters and the lemon tree, and changed almost nothing that did not need changing. Six rooms, one long table, a salt-water pool cut into the rock, and the kind of quiet that takes a day or two to get used to.
the view
Every window faces open water.
The house sits on the last quiet bay before the headland. Nothing between the terrace and Italy except sea, light and the occasional sail.
- sunrise from the east terrace
- sunset from the pool deck
- no road, no traffic, no neighbours
the quiet
No televisions. No schedules.
Rooms hold books, linen and a view — nothing that beeps. Phones work if you insist, but the thick stone walls will quietly argue with your signal.
- stone walls a metre deep
- the loudest thing is the cicadas
- breakfast until noon, on purpose
the table
Whatever the market had at six.
One long table, one daily menu, no choices to make. Fish from the morning boats, vegetables from the island, wine from the cellar below your feet.
- dinner at eight, together or apart
- the cellar is open, write down what you take
- picnics packed for boat days
“We came for two nights and stayed for six. The house rearranges your sense of what a day is for.”
Lena, Berlin
the rooms
Four ways to stay.
the sail room
from €210 / night
28 m² · sleeps 2
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the stone suite
from €260 / night
41 m² · sleeps 3
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the harbour loft
from €320 / night
55 m² · sleeps 4
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Before you ask.
When is the house open?
From late April to the end of October. The sea is warmest in September, and so are we.
Can we take the whole house?
Yes — six rooms, twelve guests, one long table. Weddings no, long birthdays yes.
Are children welcome?
Happily, from age six. The pool is salt, the steps are many, and the cicadas are louder than any child.
How do we actually get there?
Fly to Split, ferry to Hvar, and we collect you from the harbour. Send your arrival time and leave the rest to us.
“Days here are measured in swims, not hours.”
the house
six rooms, all sea-facing
metre-thick stone walls
the reading room
the water
salt-water pool
cedar sauna & cold plunge
a boat to borrow
the table
one long table, nightly
the open cellar
market breakfasts
further out
bikes & coast paths
three quiet coves
hvar town, 12 minutes
uvala lanterna 4, 21450 hvar, croatia
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