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{{Short description|Historical map of Lower Manhattan}}
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[[Image:CastelloPlanOriginalStad Amsterdam in Nieuw Nederland (City Amsterdam in New Netherland) Castello Plan 1660.jpg|350px|right|thumb|The original city map, 1660]]▼
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▲[[Image:CastelloPlanOriginal.jpg|350px|right|thumb|The original city map, 1660]]
[[Image:Castelloplan.jpg|thumb|350px|Redraft of the Castello Plan of New Amsterdam in 1660, redrawn in 1916 by [[John Wolcott Adams]] and [[Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes]]]]
 
The '''Castello Plan'''{{snd}}officially entitled '''''Afbeeldinge van de Stadt Amsterdam in Nieuw Neederlandt''''' ([[Dutch language|Dutch]], "Picture of the City of Amsterdam in New Netherland"){{snd}}is an early [[city map]] of what is now the [[Financial District, Manhattan|Financial District]] of [[Lower Manhattan]] from an original of 1660. It was created by [[Jacques Cortelyou]] ({{circa}} 1625–1693), a surveyor in what was then called [[New Amsterdam]]{{snd}}later renamed by the settlers of the [[Province of New York]] settlement as [[New York City]], with its [[Fort Amsterdam]], the center of trade and government. The map that is presently in the [[New York Public Library]] is a copy created around 1665 to 1670 by an unknown draughtsman from a [[Lost worksliterary work| lost]] Cortelyou original.
 
Around 1667, cartographer [[Joan Blaeu]] (1596–1673) bound the existing plan to an [[atlas]], together with other hand-crafted New Amsterdam depictions. He sold the atlas to [[Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany]]. This transaction most likely happened in [[Amsterdam]], [[Dutch Republic|the Netherlands]], as it has yet to be proven that Blaeu ever set foot in [[New Netherland]].<ref>[[#stokes1915b|Stokes, 1915b]], v. ii, p. xxvii</ref>
 
The plan remained in [[Italy]], where in 1900 it was discovered at the [[Villa di Castello]] near [[Florence]]. It was printed in 1916 and received the name "Castello Plan" at that time.
 
It is covered extensively in Volume 2 of [[Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes]]' six-volume survey, ''[[The Iconography of Manhattan Island]]'' (1915&ndash;1928).<ref>[[#stokes1915b|Stokes, 1915b]], v. ii</ref>
 
A Castello Plan Monument is installed at Lower Manhattan's [[Peter Minuit Plaza]]. On modern-day Cortelyou Road in Brooklyn's Ditmas Park neighborhood, there is a tavern named for The Castello Plan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thecastelloplan.com/story|title=— Story —|date=29 July 2019 }}</ref> The map itself, normally kept in [[Florence]] at the [[Laurentian Library]], was exhibited at the [[New-York Historical Society]] in 2024.<ref name="Davidson 2024 k608">{{cite web | last=Davidson | first=Justin | title=The Streets of Pre–New York | website=Curbed | date=March 13, 2024 | url=https://www.curbed.com/article/new-york-historical-society-castello-plan-new-amsterdam-exhibition.html | access-date=March 20, 2024}}</ref>
 
==See also==
* [[History of New York City]]
* [[Manatus Map]]
* [[Cartography of New York City]]
 
==ReferencesCitations==
{{Reflist}}
 
==Sources==
* {{cite book |last=Stokes |first=Isaac Newton Phelps |title=The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 |quote=compiled from original sources and illustrated by photo-intaglio reproductions of important maps, plans, views, and documents in public and private collections |volume=I |author-link=Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes |publisher=Robert H. Dodd |location=New York |year=1915 |isbn= |url=https://archive.org/details/iconographyofman01stok/page/n13/mode/2up |ref=stokes1915a}}
 
* {{cite book |last=Stokes |first=Isaac Newton Phelps |title=The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 |quote=compiled from original sources and illustrated by photo-intaglio reproductions of important maps, plans, views, and documents in public and private collections |volume=II |author-link=Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes |publisher=Robert H. Dodd |location=New York |year=1915 |isbn= |url=https://archive.org/details/iconographyofma_02stok/page/n13/mode/2up |ref=stokes1915b}}
 
==External links==
* [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu:7018/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=5800727 ''Iconography of Manhattan Island''] from Columbia University Libraries
* [httphttps://wwwnahc-mapping.urbanohio.comorg/forum2mappingNY/index.php?topic=14108.0 Overlay of the Castello Plan on current Manhattan]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170613192857/http://patricia.rootsweb.ancestry.com/nytristate/castello.htm List of property owners]
* [http://newamsterdam.ekamper.net/ Interactive version of the Castello Plan]
* [http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showthreaded&Number=1206679 Google Earth File of the Castello Plan]
* [http://nc-chap.org/castello/ Zoomable version of the Castello Plan]
* [https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/new-amsterdam-1660-new-amsterdam-history-center-a34eebc7966c4589934afb2334e182b6 3D model based on the Castello Plan]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120602062900/http://www.localarchives.org/NAHC/City-Museum/city-museum.aspx New Amsterdam History Center]
* [https://newamsterdamhistorycenter.org/ New Amsterdam History Center]
* [https://thecastelloplan.com/story The Castello Plan tavern]
 
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