Just as described. Wonderful location close too metro and nice little restaurants close by. We only had two days in Milan but felt safe in this area and it is so lovely to walk to metro from Paulas place. We are not used to not having a clothes dryer so that was a little set back but common in Europe. We got lucky we found a young man walking who actually pointed us in right direction to the metro and was heading that way. After that it was a breeze. Buy the all day metro pass and explore! We did not know it is good for bus and tram too! Having said that Milan is smaller than we thought and we wandered and found our way on foot in front of il duomo completely by mistake. Try to see this area both during the day and at night...lovely.