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Belvedere Castle

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Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle
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+1 212-772-0288

Hours:
Sunday10am - 5pm
Monday10am - 5pm
Tuesday10am - 5pm
Wednesday10am - 5pm
Thursday10am - 5pm
Friday10am - 5pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


Belvedere Castle is a folly in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. It contains exhibit rooms and an observation deck, and since 1919, the folly has also been the location of the official Central Park weather station.Belvedere Castle was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the late 19th century. An architectural hybrid of Gothic and Romanesque styles, Vaux's design called for a Manhattan schist and granite structure with a corner tower with conical cap, with the existing lookout over parapet walls between them. To reduce costs it was revised in November 1870 and completed under the Tammany Hall regime as an open painted-wood pavilion.Belvedere means beautiful view or panoramic view in Italian.
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