This apartment is in a really good location for a visit to Porto. It's just a little south of the Clerigos tower. This puts it in easy range of all the historical sites in the city center and down to the waterfront area, and also makes it very easy to get to the more "locals oriented" restaurants and bars a little bit north of the historic town center. And surprisingly, the area at night isn't terribly noisy, at least with people. We did have the misfortune of seeming to have arrived during "seagull mating season" and there was a lot of animal noise at night that required sleeping with the sliding doors closed. The apartment doesn't have AC so this could be a problem during July and august, though wasn't a terrible issue for us in late May.