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

Places

Australia

* Belvedere, Queensland, a locality in the Cassowary Coast Region

Africa

Belvedere (Casablanca) Belvedere is a neighborhood of central Casablanca, Morocco. It is in the administrative district of Roches Noires, Morocco, Roches Noires. Belvedere is home to the Casa-Voyageurs Railway Station and the Tachfine Center shopping mall. References

, a neighborhood in Casablanca, Morocco * Belvedere, Harare, Zimbabwe, a suburb

Europe

* Belvédère, Alpes-Maritimes, France, a commune *

Belvedere Giacomo Puccini Belvedere (from Italian, meaning "beautiful sight") may refer to: Places Australia *Belvedere, Queensland, a locality in the Cassowary Coast Region Africa *Belvedere (Casablanca), a neighborhood in Casablanca, Morocco *Belvedere, Harare, Zim ...

, 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, northern Italy * Belvedere, London, United Kingdom, a suburban area and electoral ward, part of the borough of Bexley * Belvedere Glacier, in the Italian Alps *

Belvedere, Suvereto Belvedere is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Suvereto, province of Livorno. At the time of the 2001 census its population was 12.Belvedur Belvedur (; it, Belvedere) is a small settlement in the City Municipality of Koper in the Littoral region of Slovenia. History In 1954, when the Free Territory of Trieste was dissolved and Zone B was assigned to Yugoslavia, Belvedur (together wit ...

, Slovenia

North America

* Belvedere, California, 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 * Belvedere Island, Marin County, California * Belvedere, Delaware, an unincorporated community * Belvedere, Michigan, ghost town * Belvedere, Ohio, a populated place * Belvedere, South Carolina, 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 downtow ...

, a public area in Louisville, Kentucky * Belvedere, United States Virgin Islands, a settlement * Belvedere, Alberta, Canada, a locality * Belvedere, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, a neighborhood

South America

* Belvedere, Montevideo, Uruguay, a neighborhood

Buildings

* Belvedere (structure), in architecture, a structure designed to incorporate a view * 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 * Belvedere Castle, a folly in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City * Belvédère Castle, Laeken, Belgium * Queen Anne's Summer Palace, Prague, Czech Republic * Cortile del Belvedere 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 Vic ...

, Calcutta, which houses the National Library of India * Belvedere Garden, a private housing estate in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong * Belvedere House and Gardens, Ireland *

Fort Belvedere (disambiguation) Fort Belvedere may refer to: * Belvedere (fort), a 16th-century fort in Florence, Italy, built by Grand Duke Ferdinando I de' Medici * Fort Belvedere, Surrey, the country home of King Edward VIII, scene of his 1936 abdication * "Fort Belvedere", a ...

* Belvedere Hotel, 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 matches. The stadium holds 10,000 people and was built in 1909. On August 15, 1910, in a game at Estadio Belvedere, the Uruguay nation ...

, a multi-use stadium in Montevideo, Uruguay * Belvédère tower, 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 (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 Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

* Belweder, a former presidential palace in Poland

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, a girls' school in Liverpool, England

Football clubs

Belvedere F.C. Belvedere Football Club is an Irish association football club based in Fairview/Clontarf, Dublin. Belvedere currently fields teams in the Dublin & District Schoolboy League. The club has also entered teams in the FAI Youth Cup, the FAI Under-1 ...

, 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, 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 exte ...

, 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 ...

, 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 card game * Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria, an art museum housed in Belvedere Castle

Business

* Belvédère (company), an alcohol-related company based in Beaune, France * Belvedere Records, an American record label * Belvedere Vodka, a brand of Polish vodka

People

Andrea Belvedere Abate Andrea Belvedere (born 1646) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Life and Work It is believed that the painter was born not in 1646, as De Dominici reported, but around 1652, based on the discovery, by Prota Giurleo, of the ac ...

(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 Earl of Belvedere (alternative spelling: ''Belvidere'') was a title in the Peerage of Ireland created in 1756 for Robert Rochfort, 1st Earl of Belvedere, Robert Rochfort, 1st Viscount Belfield. The title and its subsidiaries became extinct in 1814 ...

, an Irish peerage from 1756 to 1814