Lisbon: which part of town to stay with small children
I'm staying in Lisbon with small children for 3 or 4 days. Strollers will be used. If I rented an apartment, where would it be best to be located? In the very center near the cathedral, or should I go somewhere else from where I can reach the center easily?
My trip is in early May. I generally don't care too much about turist attractions. More important is to be near some nice bakeries, restaurants and other places people go every day. That said, I still need to be somehow in the center or near the center, so I have the chance to see Lisbon and not just the suburbs.
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Portuguese culture seems to be extremly fond of (small) children. We don't speak portugueese but we had the best discussions in Portuguese thanks to our children, who were 4 at the time. The two words I now know is "crianca" and "linda". Anyhow with small children I wouldn't so much focus on location, but more on family-run accommodation. Your best bet are airbnb and only apartments. Make sure you are close to public transport. Outside the city center you might also want to go to the aquarium, there they sometime host sleep over for small kids.
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Although Lisbon is known as the city of the 7 hills that is not true. That's a popular idea. That exists for historical reasons and It's a bit out of the scope of the answer to explain it. Often people will give you the most radical places to justify that Lisbon is very hilly but that's not very accurate. It's true though that there are a few hills and without having a specific address it's hard to answer if your place is good or not.
Anyway, ~90% of the city is plane and plateau. There is actually a master thesis about cycling in Lisbon that shows that the city is very suitable to cycle. Of course a strawler is not a bike but I think it shows that it's not an issue.
I don't know what you define by downtown. If you mean "baixa" it's actually really flat. If you go towards the castle than there are a few ramps.
Most historical areas have very large side walks. If you think of downtown up to Marques its all flat with very large avenues and lite ramps.
If you got to Jeronimos, that's all flat with very large side walks.
If you go to Chiado, it's a bit up hill, but it's not difficult to avoid stairs. Use for instance the elevators at "armazens do chiado" or use Rua do Carmo. This is just an example.
I am not saying it's all beauty and shine for you with a stroller, but it's not much different from other european capitals. The historic areas are of course old and not originally designed for strollers, wheel chairs, bikes, but there is quite an effort to make them comfortable without loosing their charm. The area around the Castle (Mouraria and Alfama) is probably the steepest. But well, except for Ghent, I never saw a Castle that it's not on an hill. Still, you can easily reach it by public transportation or taxi. It's a short ride.m If you look, it's possible to arrive there or any of the atraction around without much worries. You will also find plenty to do without having to go to steep places.
You can certainly find (avoidable) steep areas. As sugested before, I would try to find a place near the subway. I would probably use google maps to "look" at the street before renting a place
You can also use this map with the street inclination, but might be a bit more difficult since it's small.
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