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The Belvedere is a historic building complex in Vienna, Austria, consisting of two Baroque palaces (the Upper and Lower Belvedere), the Orangery, and the Palace Stables.. The buildings are set in a Baroque park landscape in the third district of the city, on the south-eastern edge of its cen
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The castle's name Belvoir means beautiful view in Norman French. Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland has said the name Belvoir was brought over by the French-speaking Normans in the 11th century. As the Middle English –speaking Anglo-Saxons were unable to pronounce the name, they preferred to call it "Beaver Castle" – a usage which persists today.
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View of Belvoir Castle (from Woolsthorpe by Belvoir) Woolsthorpe locks (on the Grantham Canal).The Rutland Arms public house (Dirty Duck) is in the background. Belvoir Castle, which occupies a dominant position overlooking the vale, is the ancestral home of the family of the Dukes of Rutland.