Belvedere (from Italian, meaning "beautiful sight") may refer to:

Places

Australia

Belvedere, Queensland Belvedere is a rural locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Belvedere had a population of 907 people. Geography Belvedere is a low-lying locality (approx 10–20 metres above sea level) to the east of the Johns ...

, a locality in the Cassowary Coast Region

Africa

* Belvedere (Casablanca), a neighborhood in Casablanca, Morocco *

Belvedere, Harare Belvedere is a suburb of Harare, the capital city and the largest metropolitan area of Zimbabwe. Though historically home to a notable Indian population since 2012 Belvedere has become known for its growing Chinese population, due to the const ...

, Zimbabwe, a suburb

Europe

Belvédère Belvédère (; oc, Barver; it, Belvedere) is a commune in the Vésubie valley north of Nice in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France. The village of Belvédère is located at the entrance of the Gordolasque valley on the edg ...

, Alpes-Maritimes, France, a commune * Belvedere Giacomo Puccini, Torre del Lago Puccini (LU), Toscana. This belvedere consists of a small plaza on Lago Massaciuccoli, in front of the villa of composer Giacomo Puccini and bordering the grounds of the annual Puccini Opera Festival. *

Mount Belvedere Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest. Mount or Mounts may also refer to: Places * Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England * Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, C ...

, northern Italy *

Belvedere, London Belvedere is a town in south east London, England, within the London Borough of Bexley. It lies close to the River Thames, with Erith to the east, Bexleyheath to the south, and Abbey Wood and Thamesmead to the west. Prior to the creation ...

, United Kingdom, a suburban area and electoral ward, part of the borough of Bexley *

Belvedere Glacier , photo = Monte Rosa east face.jpg , photo_caption = The east face of Monte Rosa with the glacier at the bottom , type = Valley glacier , location = Valle Anzasca, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (VB), Piedmont, Italy , coordinates = , map = Alps#North ...

, in the Italian Alps * Belvedere, Suvereto, Tuscany, Italy * Belvedur, Slovenia

North America

Belvedere, California Belvedere is a residential incorporated city located on the San Francisco Bay in Marin County, California, United States. Consisting of two islands and a lagoon, it is connected to the Tiburon Peninsula by two causeways. At the 2020 census, the ...

, a city ** Belvedere Lagoon, an artificial lagoon **

Belvedere Park, California Belvedere Park is a park in Belvedere, California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of a ...

* Belvedere, a neighborhood, now part of

East Los Angeles, California East Los Angeles ( es, Este de Los Ángeles), or East L.A., is an unincorporated area in Los Angeles County, California. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 118,786, a drop of 6.1% from 2010, when it was 126,496. For statistical purp ...

Belvedere Island Belvedere Island (formerly, El Potrero de la Punta del Tiburon, Kashow's Island, Peninsula Island, Promontory Island, and Still Island) is a rocky island in the San Francisco Bay in Marin County, California which was formerly separated by a marsh ...

, Marin County, California * Belvedere, Delaware, an unincorporated community * Belvedere, Michigan, ghost town *

Belvedere, Ohio Belvedere is an unincorporated community in Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio Ohio () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Of the List of states and territories of the United ...

, a populated place *

Belvedere, South Carolina Belvedere is a census-designated place (CDP) and suburb of North Augusta, South Carolina, North Augusta in Aiken County, South Carolina, Aiken County, South Carolina, United States. It is part of the Augusta, Georgia metropolitan area. The populati ...

, a census-designated place *

Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere is a public area on the Ohio River in Downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Although proposed as early as 1930, the project did not get off the ground until $13.5 million in funding was secured in 1969 to revitalize the downto ...

, a public area in Louisville, Kentucky * Belvedere, United States Virgin Islands, a settlement *

Belvedere, Alberta Belvedere is a locality in Alberta, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making ...

, Canada, a locality *

Belvedere, Edmonton Belvedere is a residential neighbourhood in north east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is located on the west side of the Canadian National Railway right of way close to the Belvedere LRT station. The neighbourhood is triangle-shaped with the r ...

, Alberta, Canada, a neighborhood

South America

Belvedere, Montevideo Belvedere is a ''barrio'' (neighbourhood or district) of Montevideo, Uruguay. An area known as Paso Molino, which starts in the Prado and extends into Belvedere, is a frequented shopping venue. Location Belvedere borders Nuevo París to the north ...

, Uruguay, a neighborhood

Buildings

Belvedere (structure) A belvedere or belvidere (from Italian for "beautiful view") is an architectural structure sited to take advantage of a fine or scenic view. The term has been used both for rooms in the upper part of a building or structures on the roof, or ...

, in architecture, a structure designed to incorporate a view *

Belvedere, Vienna The Belvedere is a historic building complex in Vienna, Austria, consisting of two Baroque palaces (the Upper and Lower Belvedere), the Orangery, and the Palace Stables. The buildings are set in a Baroque park landscape in the third district o ...

, Austria, a palace complex ** Belvedere (Palace Chapel) * Hotel Belvédère du Rayon Vert, Art Deco building at Cerbère, France * Belvedere auf dem Pfingstberg, a palace in Potsdam, Germany *

Belvedere auf dem Klausberg The Belvedere auf dem Klausberg is a building in Sanssouci Park in Potsdam, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. ...

, a building in Potsdam, Germany *

Schloss Belvedere, Weimar The Baroque palace Schloss Belvedere on the outskirts of Weimar,The more famous Schloss Belvedere is located in Vienna. is a pleasure-house (''Lustschloss'') built for house-parties, built in 1724–1732 to designs of Johann August Richter and G ...

, Germany, a small palace *

Belvedere Castle Belvedere Castle is a folly in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. It contains exhibit rooms, an observation deck, and since 1919 has housed Central Park’s official weather station. Belvedere Castle was designed by Calvert Vaux and Ja ...

, a folly in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City *

Belvédère Castle Belvédère Castle ( French: ''Château du Belvédère''; Dutch: ''Kasteel Belvédère'') is a Belgian royal residence in Laeken, Belgium, which currently houses Albert II of Belgium and his wife, Queen Paola of Belgium. History Belvédère Ca ...

, Laeken, Belgium *

Queen Anne's Summer Palace Queen Anne's Summer Palace (Czech: ''Letohrádek královny Anny''), sometimes called Belvedere, is a Renaissance building located in the Royal Garden of Prague Castle in the Czech Republic. It is considered to be one of the purest Italian Renaissa ...

, Prague, Czech Republic *

Cortile del Belvedere The (Belvedere Courtyard or Belvedere Court) was a major architectural work of the High Renaissance at the Vatican Palace in Rome. Designed by Donato Bramante from 1505 onward, its concept and details reverberated in courtyard design, formalized ...

or Belvedere Courtyard, Vatican Palace, Rome *

Belvedere Estate The Belvedere Estate consists of Belvedere House and the grounds surrounding it, in which the National Library of India is housed, since 1948. It is located in Alipore, near the zoo, in Kolkata. Belvedere House was the former palace for the ...

, Calcutta, which houses the National Library of India *

Belvedere Garden Belvedere Garden () is one of the largest-scale private housing estates in Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong, located at the seaside of Tsuen Wan West. Developed by Cheung Kong Holdings, it comprises 6,016 flats in 19 high rise residen ...

, a private housing estate in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong *

Belvedere House and Gardens Belvedere House and Gardens () is a country house located approximately from Mullingar, County Westmeath in Ireland on the north-east shore of Lough Ennell. It was built in 1740 as a hunting lodge for Robert Rochfort, 1st Earl of Belvedere by ...

, Ireland * Fort Belvedere (disambiguation) *

Belvedere Hotel The Belvedere is a Beaux Arts style building in Baltimore, Maryland. Designed by the Boston architectural firm of Parker and Thomas and built in 1902–1903, the Belvedere is a Baltimore City Landmark at the southeast corner of North Charles St ...

, Baltimore, Maryland, United States *

Belvedere (West Virginia) Belvedere, also known as Belvidere, was built near Charles Town, West Virginia by Magnus Tate II in 1807. The Federal style Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the newly founded United States be ...

, United States, a mansion in the National Register of Historic Places *

Estadio Belvedere Estadio Belvedere is a multi-use stadium in Montevideo, Uruguay. It is currently used primarily for football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''f ...

, a multi-use stadium in Montevideo, Uruguay *

Belvédère tower The Tour du Belvédère is a 20 metre tall observation tower located on Belvédère mountain near Mulhouse in Alsace, France. Tour du Belvédère was designed by Ph. Ant. Fauler, built in 1898 and is reminiscent of the Eiffel Tower. External lin ...

, an observation tower near Mulhouse, Alsace, France * Belvedere Water Tower, Aachen, Germany *

Belvedere Apartments (Columbia, Missouri) Belvedere Apartments is a well-preserved apartment building located at 206 Hitt Street in downtown Columbia, Missouri. Built in 1927, the building was designed by noted architect Nelle Peters. The building was added to Columbia's Notable Buildings ...

, a residential complex in Columbia, Missouri, United States *

Villa St Ignatius Villa St Ignatius ( mt, Villa Sant'Injazju) is a historic villa located in the Balluta area of St Julian's, Malta. It was built in the early 19th century for the English merchant John Watson, and it might be the earliest example of Gothic Reviva ...

(originally called Bel-Vedere), St. Julian's, Malta * Belevedere, earlier name of

Pontikokastro Pontikokastro ( el, Ποντικόκαστρο), known in French as ''Beauvoir'' and Italian as ''Belveder'' during the late Middle Ages, is a Byzantine castle in Agios Andreas, Katakolo, in the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. History The ...

, a castle in southern Greece * Belvedere, Belvederio dvaras, Lithuania *

Belweder Belweder (; from the Italian ''belvedere'', "beautiful view") is a neoclassical palace in Warsaw, Poland. Erected in 1660 and remodelled in the early 1800s, it is one of several official residences used by Polish presidents as well as a state ...

, a former presidential palace in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is divided into Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 mill ...

Schools

Belvedere College Belvedere College S.J. (sometimes St Francis Xavier's College) is a voluntary secondary school for boys in Dublin, Ireland. The school has numerous alumni in the arts, politics, sports, science, and business. History Belvedere owes its origin ...

, Dublin, Ireland, a private Jesuit secondary school for boys *

The Belvedere Academy The Belvedere Academy is an all-ability state-funded girls’ Academy secondary- formerly independent- school in Liverpool, England. Its predecessor, The Belvedere School, was founded in 1880 as Liverpool High School. It is non-denominational, ...

, a girls' school in Liverpool, England

Football clubs

* Belvedere F.C., an Irish association football club * Burnley Belvedere F.C., an English association football club

Transportation

* – an East Indiaman of the British East India Company *

Bristol Belvedere The Bristol Type 192 Belvedere is a British twin-engine, tandem rotor military helicopter built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company. It was designed by Raoul Hafner for a variety of transport roles including troop transport, supply dropping and ca ...

, a British military helicopter designed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company *

Plymouth Belvedere Plymouth Belvedere is a series of American automobile models made by Plymouth from 1954 until 1970. The Belvedere name was first used for a new hardtop body style in the Plymouth Cranbrook line for the 1951 model year. In 1954 the Belvedere r ...

, an American automobile made by Plymouth from 1951 through 1970 *

Belvedere railway station Belvedere railway station is a railway station in South East London between Abbey Wood and Erith. It is measured from . It is served by Southeastern. A level crossing beyond the western end of the platforms was closed before the westerly e ...

, London, United Kingdom * Belvedere LRT Station, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Arts and entertainment

* ''Belvedere'' (M. C. Escher), a 1958 lithograph by M. C. Escher * ''The Belvedere'', a 1913 work by English painter

John William Godward John William Godward (9 August 1861 – 13 December 1922) was an English painter from the end of the Neo-Classicist era. He was a protégé of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, but his style of painting fell out of favour with the rise of modern a ...

Belvedere (band) Belvedere is a Canadian punk rock band from Calgary and Edmonton, Canada formed in 1995. History Taking their name from the '80s sitcom, Belvedere began in Calgary, in 1995, as the three-piece band of Steve Rawles (guitar/vocals), Brock (bass) ...

, a Canadian punk rock band founded in the late 1990s * ''Belvedere'' (comic strip), running from 1962 * ''Belvedere'' (film), a 2010 film *

Lynn Aloysius Belvedere Lynn Aloysius Belvedere is a fictional character created by Gwen Davenport for her 1947 novel ''Belvedere'', and later adapted for film and television. Novel ''Belvedere'' was written in 1947 by Gwen Davenport, and concerns an English housekeeper w ...

, the main character of the 1947 novel ''Belvedere'' by Gwen Davenport, three films, and the television series ''Mr. Belvedere'' * Belvedere, a variation of the

Bristol Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city i ...

card game *

Österreichische Galerie Belvedere The Österreichische Galerie Belvedere is a museum housed in the Belvedere palace, in Vienna, Austria. The Belvedere palaces were the summer residence of Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736). The ensemble was built in the early eighteenth cent ...

, Vienna, Austria, an art museum housed in Belvedere Castle

Business

Belvédère (company) Marie Brizard Wine & Spirits () is a French wine and spirits producer and distributor. The company was founded in 1991. It is listed on the French stock market, and is a member of the CAC Small 90 index. The recipes of its most famous liquor, "''Ani ...

, an alcohol-related company based in Beaune, France *

Belvedere Records Belvedere Records was an American independent record label founded by Hochschild, Kohn & Co., a department store located in Baltimore, Maryland in 1922. It released records by Ford Dabney’s Syncopated Orchestra, W. C. Handy's Memphis Blues Ban ...

, an American record label * Belvedere Vodka, a brand of Polish vodka

People

* Andrea Belvedere (1646–?), Italian Baroque painter *

Robert Mascara Robert "Belvedere" Mascara (born 6 April 1972) is an Australian television floor manager and assistant director. Of Italian descent, Mascara was born in Melbourne and began his career in December 1989 at the Nine Network where he was working as ...

(born 1972), floor manager on the show ''Good Morning Australia'', nicknamed "Belvedere"

Other uses

* Earl of Belvedere, an Irish peerage from 1756 to 1814