2 Bedroom Apartment in Misericórdia Lisbon

Lisbon, Portugal

2-bedroom duplex apartment close to Praça das Flores and across the street from the Portuguese Parliament building, schools, shops and services.

This duplex has 136 sq m of gross private area and is in a building constructed in traditional Lisbon style, with no lift. It consists of two floors, with the following layout:

On the first floor is the entrance, a living room with space for a dining area, a kitchen, one bedroom and a guest bathroom.

The upper floor has two suites, one with a closet and the other with a small recess converted into storage space, and built-in wardrobes at the top of the stairs.

The layout of this property, combined with its location, provides sunlight from the east and west (in the bedrooms) and views over Rua de São Bento and part of the Parliament building.

Features:

– Property located in a fully renovated building
– East and west facing
– Kitchen fitted with fridge, oven, hob, cooker hood, dishwasher, washing machine and microwave
– Double glazing
– Wooden floorboards

The civil parish of Misericórdia, which includes the Principe Real area, is the result of the merger of the earlier civil parishes of Encarnação, Mercês, Santa Catarina and São Paulo. The name of the civil parish comes from the presence of the headquarters of Santa Casa da Misericórdia (“Holy House of Mercy”, a Portuguese charity founded in Lisbon in 1498 by Queen Leonor of Portugal) in the São Roque Church and House of professed Priests since 1768.

The district has also attracted artists and many figures of the city’s cultural and political elite lived in the former and current part of Lisbon covered by the civil parish. These included well-known names such as Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Almeida Garrett, Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castelo Branco, Ramalho Ortigão, Gonçalves Crespo, Albel Manta and António Quadros.

The district holds parties, religious festivities and processions but nowadays it also offers more modern urban culture with new stores, art galleries, theatres and so on providing different events that make this civil parish both traditional and ever-changing.

Misericórdia civil parish covers about 1 square kilometre and has around about 13,000 inhabitants.

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