Belvedere

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

In architecture

• Belvedere (structure), an architectural term for a structure in the form of a turret or other vantage point designed to incorporate a view

Places

United States

• Belvedere, California, a city in Marin County
  • Belvedere Lagoon, an artificial lagoon
  • Belvedere Park, California
• Belvedere Island, Marin County, California
• Belvedere, Glenn County, California, a former settlement
• Belvedere, Ohio, a populated place
• Belvedere, South Carolina, a census-designated place
• Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere a public area in Louisville, Kentucky
• Belvedere, United States Virgin Islands, a settlement

Elsewhere in the World

• Belvedere, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, a neighbourhood
• Belvédère, Alpes-Maritimes, France, a commune
• Mount Belvedere in northern Italy, an important position in the Battle of Monte Castello
• Belvedere (Casablanca), a quartier of Casablanca, Morocco
• Belvedere, London, United Kingdom, a suburban area and electoral ward
• Belvedere, Montevideo, Uruguay, a neighborhood
• Belvedere, Harare, Zimbabwe, a suburb
• Belvedere Glacier, in the Italian Alps
• Belvedér, Bohemian Switzerland, Czech Republic

Buildings

• Belvedere, Vienna, 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, a building in Potsdam, Germany
• Schloss Belvedere, Weimar, Germany, a small palace
• Cortile del Belvedere or Belvedere Courtyard, Vatican Palace, Rome
• Belvedere Estate, Calcutta, which houses the National Library of India
• Belvedere House and Gardens, Ireland
• Fort Belvedere (disambiguation)
• Belvedere (Wellington), New Zealand, a concrete apartment building
• Belvedere Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• Belvedere (West Virginia), United States, a mansion in the National Register of Historic Places
• Estadio Belvedere, a multi-use stadium in Montevideo, Uruguay
• Belvédère tower, an observation tower near Mulhouse, Alsace, France
• Belvedere Water Tower, Aachen, Germany
• Belvedere Incinerator, Bexley, London, England
• Belvedere Power Station, a former power station in Belvedere, London, England
• Belvedere Apartments (Columbia, Missouri), a residential complex in Columbia, Missouri, United States

Schools

• Belvedere College, Dublin, Ireland, a private Jesuit secondary school for boys
• The Belvedere Academy (formerly the Belvedere School), a girls' school in Liverpool, England

Sport

• Belvedere F.C., an Irish association football club
• Burnley Belvedere F.C., an English association football club
• Erith & Belvedere F.C., an English association football club
• Old Belvedere, an Irish rugby union club

Transportation

• Bristol Belvedere, a British military helicopter designed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company
• Plymouth Belvedere, an American automobile made by Plymouth from 1951 through 1970
• Belvedere railway station, London, United Kingdom
• Belvedere (ETS), an LRT station and major transit centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Entertainment

• Belvedere (band), a Canadian punk rock band founded in the late 1990s
• Belvedere (comic strip), running from 1962
• Belvedere (film), a 2010 film
• Lynn Aloysius Belvedere, the main character of the 1947 novel Belvedere by Gwen Davenport, three films, and the television series Mr. Belvedere
• Belvedere Records
• Belvedere, a variation of the Bristol card game
• Apollo Belvedere, a marble statue from antiquity

People

• Andrea Belvedere (1646–?), Italian Baroque painter
• Robert Mascara (born 1972), floor manager on the show Good Morning Australia, nicknamed "Belvedere"

Other

• Belvedere (M. C. Escher), a 1958 lithograph by M. C. Escher
• The Belvedere, a 1913 work by English painter John William Godward
• Earl of Belvedere, an Irish peerage from 1756 to 1814
• Belvédère (company), an alcohol-related company based in Beaune, France
• Belvedere (vodka), a brand of Polish vodka

See also

• Belvidere (disambiguation)
• Belvedér, a viewing point in the Czech Republic
• Belweder (Polish pronunciation: [bɛlvɛdɛr]; in full Pałac Belwederski, Belweder Palace), a palace in Warsaw, a few kilometers south of the Royal Castle, where the president of the Republic of Poland resides
• Pontikokastro, a castle in southern Greece, known as Belvedere in Italian