Maria and Marcos and Marcos are very kind. We did not meet them personally, as they were away for the holidays, but their son showed us the apartment. Marcos phoned or wrote emails each day, to comfort us.
Arriving late in the evening it was a nice surprise, finding cheese, bread, wine and some fruit in the apartment ready for us. The restaurant Marcos suggested (and even booked) for our last evening was great. We never would have found it by ourselves. We enjoyed the apartment very much. It is clean and big. In addition it is well and luxurious furnished. The view really is great and standing on the balcony gives a special feeling of the town. The living room is huge and cozy. The bedrooms are larger than expected for a town-apartment. One bedroom even is a kind of studio. In the kitchen all utensils one could think of are available. We could have spent months at that home. The apartment is in a quiet neighborhood. During the night there was no noise in the house (during the day we do not know, as we were on sightseeing).
The walking-distance to Praca da Figueira is about 15 minutes. However, strolling through the little side streets gives a good impression of Lisbon. The next Metro-station is about 10 minutes from the apartment. There are several bus-lines, which stop in the front of the house, but we did not take the time to study the routes and timetables.
On our last day we could leave our luggage in the apartment until we had to go to the airport late afternoon.