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Belvedere in Italian literally means beautiful view.

It is used as a generic architectural term (see Belvedere (structure)), and has been used to name many things:

• The Belvedere (structure), a small garden casino near the Vatican Palace, Rome, connected to it by the Courtyard of the Belvedere
• Belvedere (fort) in Florence, Italy
• Belvedere (palace) in Vienna, Austria
• Belweder (Belvedere Palace) in Warsaw, Poland
• Belvedere Estate in Calcutta, which houses the National Library of India
• Belvedere Estate (New York) in Tarrytown, New York, Unification Church meeting place / Sun Myung Moon's former residence
• Belvedere House and Gardens in Ireland
• Belvedere Park & Belvedere Towers, residential apartments in Gurgaon, Haryana (near New Delhi, India)
• Claremont (country house) (Claremont Belvedere), a stately home in Surrey, England
• Belvedere (Potsdam), Germany
• Belvedere College, Dublin, Ireland
• Belvedere Plantation near Richmond, Virginia
• Belvedere LRT Station, an LRT Station and Major Transit Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Belvedere, hunting palace of the Bishops of Speyer in Bruchsal, Germany
• Belvedere, a residential apartment complex in the suburb of Glenwood, South Africa
• Belvedere School, GDST girls school located in Liverpool.
• Belvedere, Antebellum house(pre civil war) built in Holly Springs MS 1858. It is said to be the boyhood home of Shepard Smith(Fox News)but not confirmed.
• Belvedere, near the Riverfront, an outdoor structure in Little Rock, Arkansas.

• Belvedere, M. C. Escher's famous 1958 lithograph

• Belvedere, California
• Belvedere, South Carolina
• Belvedere Park, Georgia
• Belvedere, London and Belvedere railway station
• Tunis Belvedere
• The Belvedere Club in Charlevoix, Michigan, a wealthy and historic summer home association and golf club
• Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere in Louisville, Kentucky, next to the wharf on the Ohio River
• Belvedere Construction Inc. is a construction firm in Detroit, Michigan, famous in that city for its owner and his simple but clever late night commercials and its phone number TY8-7100 (313-898-7100).

• Bristol Belvedere: The Belvedere helicopter, designed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company (later Westland Aircraft)
• Mr. Belvedere, an American sitcom that aired from 1985 to 1990, based on the novel Belvedere by Gwen Davenport
• Belvedere Records
• Belvedere (band), a Canadian punk rock band founded in the late 1990's.
• Belvedere (vodka), a premium vodka.
• Plymouth Belvedere, an American automobile made by Plymouth from 1951 through 1970
• Belvedere (cartoon character), a cartoon bulldog in Looney Tunes' Bugs Bunny and Tweety show cartoons who was called by his master, an ornery Southern Colonel: "Oh Belvedere.... come here boy!"
• Belvederefilm, an independent film production company based in Los Angeles and Vienna, founded 1999 by Elfi von Dassanowsky and Robert von Dassanowsky
• Robert Mascara, Australian television personality on Good Morning Australia who is almost always referred to as "Belvedere" by Bert Newton.
• Belvedere Stadium, Home of Liverpool FC, soccer team from Montevideo
• Belvedere, Surbub in the western part of the city center of Harare, Zimbabwe. The majority of residence are of Asian origin and hosts two higher education instititutions. These are the Belvedere Technical teachers College and Harare Institute of Technology.
• Belvedere - a small round copse on a hill as part of the scenic layout of formal gardens on an estate.

Earl of Belvedere Robert Rochfort 1708 - 1774 1st Earl of Belvedere Rochfortbridge Westmeath Ireland see http://rochfortbridge.wetpaint.com Earl of Belvedere George Rochfort 2nd Earl of Belvedere, son of Robert

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