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[[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''' — officially entitled '''''Afbeeldinge van de Stadt Amsterdam in Nieuw Neederlandt''''' ([[Dutch language|Dutch]], "Picture of the City of Amsterdam in New Netherland") — is an early [[city map]] of [[Lower Manhattan]] from an original of 1660. It was created by [[Jacques Cortelyou]] (''ca.'' 1625 - 1693), a surveyor in what was then called [[New Amsterdam]] — later renamed by [[Province of New York]] settlement as [[New York City]]. The copy presently in the [[New York Public Library]] is a copy created around 1665 to 1670 by an unknown draughtsman from a lost Cortelyou original.
Around 1667, cartographer [[Joan Blaeu]] (1596–1673) bound the existing plan, together with other hand-crafted New Amsterdam depictions, to an [[atlas]], which he sold 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]].
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