Belvedere

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, Zimbabwe, a suburb

Europe

• Belvédère, Alpes-Maritimes, France, a commune
• Cortile del Belvedere, Renaissance courtyard in the Vatican Palace in Rome
• Mount Belvedere [it], northern Italy; see 10th Mountain Division (United States)
• Belvedere, palace complex in Vienna, Austria
• Belvedere, London, United Kingdom, a suburban area and electoral ward, part of the borough of Bexley
• Belvedere Glacier, in the Italian Alps
• Belvedere, Suvereto, Tuscany, Italy
• Belvedur, Slovenia

North America

• Belvedere, California, a city
  • Belvedere Lagoon, an artificial lagoon
  • Belvedere Park, California
• 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, a public area in Louisville, Kentucky
• Belvedere, U.S. Virgin Islands, a settlement
• Belvedere, Alberta, Canada, a locality
• Belvedere, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, a neighborhood
• Belvedere, Calgary, Alberta, 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)
• 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, 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)
• Hotel Belvedere (disambiguation):
  • Hotel Belvédère du Rayon Vert, Art Deco building at Cerbère, France
  • 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 Apartments (Columbia, Missouri), a residential complex in Columbia, Missouri, United States
• Villa St Ignatius (originally called Bel-Vedere), St. Julian's, Malta
• Belevedere, an earlier name of Pontikokastro, a castle in southern Greece
• Belvedere Manor [Lt], in Seredžius, Lithuania
• Belweder, a former presidential palace in Poland

Schools

• Belvedere College, Dublin, Ireland, a private Jesuit secondary school for boys
• The Belvedere Academy, 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

• Belvedere (1787 EIC ship), an East Indiaman of the British East India Company
• 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 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
• 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, 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 (1646–?), Italian Baroque painter
• Robert Mascara (born 1972), floor manager on the show Good Morning Australia, nicknamed "Belvedere"
• Vittoria Belvedere (born 1972), Italian actress

Other uses

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

See also

• Miss Belvedere, a Plymouth Belvedere automobile sealed in an underground vault as a 50-year time-capsule in 1957
• Erith & Belvedere F.C., an English association football club
• Old Belvedere, an Irish rugby union club
• Belvidere (disambiguation)
• Belveder (disambiguation)
• Belweder, a palace in Warsaw, a former residence of several Polish presidents