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{{Short description|Historical map of Lower Manhattan}}
{{More footnotes|date=December 2007}}
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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
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]]'' (1915–1928).<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
==See also==
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