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The Castello Plan is a map of New Amsterdam, the Dutch settlement on Manhattan Island that later became New York City. It was originally created in 1660 by Jacques Cortelyou and made its way to Italy in the collection of Cosimo III de' Medici. It was discovered again in 1900 in Villa di Castello (hence the name), and redrawn by John Wolcott Adams and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes in 1916, which is the version shown here.