Belvedere Castle

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 Belvedere Castle
 
Location: 79th St. in Central Park, New York

Belvedere Castle is perched on Vista Rock and is the second highest natural elevation in the Park, is Belvedere, Italian for panoramic viewpoint, offers visitors just that.

You can look down into the Delacorte Theater to the left, home to summertime Public Theater productions of Shakespeare and cutting edge interpretations of new and classic plays. Straight ahead is the newly-restored, 55-acre Great Lawn, once one of the Park‘s original reservoirs; now it offers softball fields, basketball courts, and an abundance of sunbathers. And be...


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