Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle is located on the second highest elevation (Vista Rock) in Central Park in New York City and around 250 m west of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , between 79th Street, which crosses the park, and Turtle Pond. North of the castle, on the opposite bank of the Turtle Pond, is the Delacorte Theater, an open-air stage that hosts free Shakespeare performances in the summer .
It was designed by Calvert Vaux , one of Central Park's two landscape planners, and built in 1869 from slate extracted from the excavation for the ponds in the design of Central Park.
Belvedere Castle is home to the Central Park Learning Center. In the "Discovery Chamber" an overview of the fauna of the park is offered. The New York Meteorological Observatory has been housed in the castle since 1992 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ centralpark.com , accessed on August 29, 2017.
literature
- Roy Rosenzweig, Elizabeth Blackmar: The Park and the People: A History of Central Park . Cornell University Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-8014-2516-5 .
Trivia
The Belvedere Castle became famous in the late 1970s when it was shown in Sesame Street as the castle of Count Zahl (English Count von Count ).
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Coordinates: 40 ° 46 ′ 46 ″ N , 73 ° 58 ′ 8.6 ″ W.