This is a compact little apartment where you can feel like a local looking out the window and seeing neighbours hanging their laundry or sitting on the sidewalk steps drinking coffee and chatting. Sometimes there will be a singing voice or musical notes coming from an old church across the street, or sounds of neighbours heading down to the gigantic flea market a block away. Great coffee and tapas just down the block or up in the square above. The suite has 2 bedrooms which is an awesome find when traveling. And Paula as your host is so very friendly and upbeat and loves to share herself and her neighbourhood. Be sure to visit her brothers restaurant just at the back outside corner of the mercado only 1 1/2 blocks away. It looks very modest but the food on offer is great and supporting a family business feels just so right! What a peaceful haven of a neighborhood just beside Alfama that was teaming with tourists. I would love to return some day.