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Background informationof UNIT4 Content Belvedere Castle(眺望台城堡) Belvedere Castle?is a?folly（装饰性建筑）?in?Central Park?in?Manhattan,?New York City. It contains exhibit rooms and an observation deck（观测甲板）, 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 1800s. An architectural hybrid（建筑混合） of?Gothic（哥特式）?and?Romanesque（罗马式）?styles, Vaux‘s design called for a more weighty Manhattan?schist（片岩）?and?granite（花岗岩） structure with a corner tower with conical cap（锥形顶）, with the existing lookout over parapet walls（矮护墙） between them. To reduce costs it was revised in November 1870, and completed under the new?Tammany Hall（坦慕尼协会）regime as an open painted-wood（烤漆的） pavilion. Belvedere means “beautiful view” or “panoramic（全景的） view in Italian. Henry luce nature observatory（亨利.鲁斯 自然观测中心） Named for philanthropist Henry Luce (founder of Time Magazine) the Nature Observatory is housed inside one of the parks most beautiful buildings, Belvedere Castle. The Castle also houses the Central Park center of the National Weather Bureau. Every minute the current climate conditions are sent to the weather center at Brookhaven, Long Island. Henry luce nature observatory is a wonderful educational site that teaches visitors about nature and wildlife in Central Park in New York. Climbing up and down the narrow, winding staircases（螺旋式楼梯） of Belvedere Castle, guests can see all that this small Observatory has to offer, including microscopes（显微镜）, telescopes（望远镜）, and Discovery kits（发现包） complete with binoculars（双筒望远镜）, maps, and paper for jotting down（草草记下） findings in the park. Shakespeare Garden Shakespeare gardens, created out of reverence for the bard, can be found throughout many locations in both the US and Britain. Of these gardens, one of the most famous is that found in Central Park, where it is located on the West Side of the park and 7