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