We spent a delightful week at Casa Branca. Tania was a wonderfully gracious host, presenting us with a bottle of fine wine and offering helpful suggestions of good places to eat that we would not have found otherwise.
The apartment is attractive and well equipped. The shower worked well, the kitchen had everything we needed, and we appreciated the large comfortable bed. The location on a quaint street in Mouraria, below the Sao Jorge Castle, is an easy walk down the hill to Baixa or around the hill to Alfalma.
If you have time, and have already explored Alfama, Baixa, and Bairro Alto, we recommend you spend a day seeing the historical sights in Belem and another day taking the train to Sintra to visit the Pena Palace. Also, the Gulbenkian Museum in north Lisbon has an extraordinary collection of art ranging from Greek coins to Persian carpets to Impressionist paintings.
Thank you, Tania, for your fine hospitality. We hope to come back!