We travel to Europe every year for six weeks. Since we book a year or more in advance we usually have the pick of all the best apartments in the city we are visiting. We have stayed in a number of very good apartments. Alessandro’s apartment however is easily the best we have had the pleasure to stay in Europe. The pictures in the listing are exactly as you will see but they do not give you the full appreciation of spaciousness of the apartment. It is spotless with good quality furnishings throughout – not the Ikea products many places use. The apartment is very comfortable and the kitchen well stocked. The welcome homemade cake was also delicious! The living room is huge, the deck on the roof is very nice for sunsets watching. The apartment is on the top floor of a large impressive building – not to many steps up but there is also a lift which helps with luggage. Pre-arrival communications with Alessandro and Laura was simple – we just used Whats App. Although we arrived late on a weekday evening and got stuck in the customs line for over an hour they were at the apartment to meet us close to midnight and even called the a local restaurant (Ciccio Passami l’Olio) to ask them to stay open for us. After giving us a tour of the apt and making sure our numerous question were answered, they walked us to the restaurant and introduced us to the owner who was very gracious. We ate at CPO probably 4 or 5 times during our stay and the manager remembered our names from that first visit. The apartment is right by the water in the Kalsa area. It’s on a slightly busy but very interesting street with restaurants right outside and a lot of local characters playing cards, selling fish in the morning etc. The fruit stand on the corner is great especially in the afternoon when they offer Specials of the day - the boiled potatoes are amazing. Even with all this activity the apartment itself is very quiet. The building a porter during the day – Salvator who was very nice and gave some advice. We had read that the Kalsa was not the safest place in town but we walked through it every night and never saw or felt a single issue – in fact the people could not have been friendlier. The Internet in the apartment is excellent. We were working part of our stay and were able to successfully conduct web meetings with clients and prospect worldwide. The one day the Internet went down and Alessandro within minutes had contacted the provider and called back to say it was a problem in the city. Sure enough we were back up and running in about an hour – that was the only issue during the entire month. Alessandro and Laura also arranged car hire for us and we used that several times. It really...