# Is Misericórdia a Good Area to Stay in Lisbon? Map & Verdict

Verdict: Mixed. Fine for some travellers, wrong for others.

Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/misericordia
Every Lisbon district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon.md

Chiado by day, Bairro Alto by night. They share a freguesia and about two hundred metres of hill, which is the entire problem with booking here.

Facts: 10 min walk to the Baixa; 25 min to the airport; 35 min to the beach; price €€€; best for nightlife, food, couples, solo travellers; lines Azul, Verde, 15E, 24E, 28E.
Safety: Mixed after dark. Bairro Alto and Pink Street are crowded rather than dangerous, but hash sellers work both every night and the cobbles are slick with spilled drink by 01:00.

Misericórdia holds two districts a booking site will describe in one sentence and that you would not pick for the same trip. Chiado is the shopping and café half, calm by 23:00, with the Baixa-Chiado metro under it. Bairro Alto sits directly above it and is where Lisbon drinks, standing in the street.

Príncipe Real is the third piece and the quiet one: a garden square, restaurants that take reservations, ten minutes of hill between it and the noise. Cais do Sodré at the bottom gives you the Time Out Market and the train to Cascais and the beaches.

So the verdict depends on the street, not the district, which is why it is amber rather than green. If the address is inside the Bairro Alto grid, assume noise until 03:00 from Thursday to Saturday and ask about the windows before you pay. If it is Chiado or Príncipe Real, this is one of the best places to stay in Lisbon.

What works:
- Chiado's shops, cafes and the Baixa-Chiado metro are all inside it
- Cais do Sodré has the Time Out Market and the train to the beaches
- Príncipe Real is quiet, green and ten minutes above the noise
- Highest restaurant density in the city, and not all of it is tourist menus

What does not:
- Bairro Alto drinking happens in the street and runs to about 03:00
- Single glazing is normal here, so ask about windows before you book
- Everything is a hill; the Elevador da Bica is a queue, not a commute
- Pink Street at Cais do Sodré is a bar strip after midnight, not a photo stop

Hotels in Misericórdia: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fdest_id%3D8254%26dest_type%3Ddistrict%26group_adults%3D2%26no_rooms%3D1

## Other districts in Lisbon

- [Santa Maria Maior](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/santa-maria-maior): Recommended. The Baixa grid, lower Alfama and the castle hill in one freguesia. You will not buy a metro ticket for three days, and you will pay for the privilege.
- [Santo António](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/santo-antonio): Recommended. Avenida da Liberdade and the hotels along it. Flat, quiet after 23:00, and fifteen minutes downhill into the Baixa with the metro to bring you back up.
- [São Vicente](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/sao-vicente): Mixed. Graça and the top of Alfama. The best free views in Lisbon, and you earn every one of them again on the walk back from dinner.
- [Estrela](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/estrela): Mixed. Lapa's embassies, the Estrela garden and the Santos bars down by the river. Handsome, residential, and the nearest metro is in somebody else's district.
- [Avenidas Novas](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/avenidas-novas): Mixed. Saldanha, the Gulbenkian and the office blocks. Two metro lines, honest prices, and no reason at all to walk anywhere after dinner.
- [Arroios](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/arroios): Mixed. Anjos, Pena and Intendente, up Almirante Reis from Martim Moniz. The most-lived-in central parish in Lisbon, and the one the guides tell you to be careful in.
- [Campo de Ourique](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/campo-de-ourique): Recommended. A flat grid on the hill above Estrela, at the far end of tram 28. Lisbon's most liveable central parish, with the fewest visitors in it.
- [Penha de França](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/penha-de-franca): Mixed. The hill behind Graça: 1930s apartment blocks, the best free viewpoints in Lisbon and a climb home that beats most people.
- [Areeiro](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/areeiro): Mixed. Big 1940s flats around Alameda and the Areeiro roundabout. Twelve minutes from the airport, two metro lines, and no reason to walk out of the door.
- [Alcântara](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/alcantara): Mixed. LX Factory, the docks under the bridge, and a great deal of traffic. The most photographed district in Lisbon and the one nobody thinks to sleep in.
- [Belém](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/belem): Avoid. Two UNESCO sites, the best custard tarts in Portugal, and seven kilometres between you and dinner. Come for a morning, sleep somewhere else.
- [Parque das Nações](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-lisbon/parque-das-nacoes): Avoid. A 1998 world's fair site with a shopping centre and an aquarium. Clean, modern, well connected, and not the city you bought the flight to see.