My girlfriend and I stayed at this apartment for a few days during our road trip through Spain and Portugal. It's a great place and we definitely recommend it! Simple and tasteful contemporary interior design (surprise, surprise - the owner is an architect!), in good shape, tidy, located in the heart of the city in a pedestrian area.

The pedestrian area is lively during the day, but life there doesn't start too early (not before 9 am), it doesn't go on forever (not past 11 pm), and the apartment is on the top floor, so you don't notice too much of the outside world.

On check-in, the owner took good care of us and pointed out his favorite local restaurants, bars, and sights to us - and invited us to have a bottle of wine on the house in a bar where he did the interior design.

For anyone else doing a road trip: There's a public parking garage just a few steps away at the corner of Calle Jaen and Calle Albareda, which cost us EUR 17.50 per day. Quite reasonable. Oh, and there's a department store with a grocery department (El Corte Ingles) around the corner from the apartment.

To sum up: We'll be more than happy to come back.