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Baixa Pombalina · Lisbon
Amazing Penthouse in Rossio
Right above Rossio. Lisbon at your feet.
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3 bedrooms
1 bathroom
5th floor · no lift
Baixa Pombalina
The Location
At the centre of Lisbon, on top of the centre.
The address — Rua dos Sapateiros 231 — sits inside the Baixa Pombalina, the orderly grid laid down after the 1755 earthquake and still the closest thing Lisbon has to a downtown. Praça do Rossio is right below your windows; Praça do Comércio and the Tejo are five minutes south on foot. Metro Rossio and Metro Restauradores are both two minutes away — the whole city opens from here without ever needing a car.
On foot from the door
- Metro Rossio · Metro Restauradores
- 2 min
- Praça do Comércio · Tejo waterfront
- 5 min
- Chiado · Time Out Market
- 8 min
- Castelo de São Jorge · Alfama
- 12 min
- Bairro Alto · Príncipe Real
- 15 min
The Home
Three bedrooms, one mezzanine, plenty of light.
A top-floor home in a 19th-century Pombaline building, restored with a contemporary, slightly eclectic hand. Picasso-style cushions, geometric rugs, woven-fibre boho pendants, and a steel staircase climbing to an open mezzanine that doubles as a reading corner.
Three bedrooms sleep six — a double in the main room, two singles convertible to a double in the second, and two singles in the third. A fully equipped kitchen, a washing machine, fast Wi-Fi, a smart TV, and brand-new air conditioning across the apartment.
From the windows: Rossio Square directly below, the terracotta rooftops of the Baixa, and São Jorge Castle on the hill across the way.
What's inside
Air conditioning (new units)
Fast Wi-Fi
Fully equipped kitchen
Washing machine
Smart TV
The Neighborhood
Baixa Pombalina — where modern Lisbon began.
When the 1755 earthquake levelled downtown Lisbon, the Marquês de Pombal rebuilt it in the orderly grid you walk through today: anti-seismic timber-and-stone construction, regular block sizes, and urban planning a century or so before the rest of Europe caught up. Rua dos Sapateiros runs straight through the heart of it.
Step out the door and the Baixa is there for the taking. A Ginjinha has been pouring sour cherry liqueur on Largo de São Domingos since 1840. Bertrand, on Rua Garrett, is the oldest operating bookstore in the world (1732). Cervejaria Trindade serves beer in a converted convent. South of the building the grid runs cleanly down to the Tejo at Praça do Comércio — the moment of release at the end of every walk through the Baixa.
The grid is busy by day with locals, commuters and visitors, and quietens in the evening when the action moves up the hill to Bairro Alto. From the top floor, you hear less of it than you'd expect.
Restaurants nearby
Solar dos Presuntos
Portuguese classics — seafood, presunto, the works
5 min walk
Cantinho do Avillez
Chef José Avillez's signature Chiado restaurant
6 min walk
In the Baixa
- A Ginjinha · since 1840
- 1 min walk
- Café Nicola · since 1779
- 4 min walk
- Confeitaria Nacional · pastries since 1829
- 3 min walk
- Cervejaria Trindade · beer in a converted convent
- 7 min walk
- Bertrand · world's oldest operating bookstore (1732)
- 7 min walk
- Time Out Market · Lisbon's food hall
- 8 min walk
Worth the journey
- Cervejaria Ramiro · legendary seafood — prawns, crab, late-night steak sandwiches
- ~15 min metro to Intendente
- Belém · Jerónimos Monastery, Torre de Belém, Pastéis de Belém
- ~25 min by tram 15E from Praça da Figueira, next door
- Sintra · UNESCO town, Pena Palace, Quinta da Regaleira
- ~40 min by train from Rossio Station, at the bottom of the block
- Cascais · Atlantic beach town, fishing port
- ~40 min by train from Cais do Sodré
Rua dos Sapateiros 231, Baixa Pombalina, Lisboa
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