Belvedere Courtyard
In Belvedere Courtyard, the Cortile del Belvedere, you’re standing on a site that once linked the Vatican Palace with the Villa Belvedere in a High Renaissance vision by Donato Bramante. Built starting in 1506, this courtyard was conceived as a single enclosed space, with terraces and symmetrical stairs organizing views from the Vatican Palace down to the villa slopes. Bramante’s design began around 1505 and shaped courtyard and garden planning that reverberated across Western Europe, influencing formal piazzas and terrace layouts. Julius II had Bramante’s work formalize connections between the palace and Villa Belvedere, incorporating a sequence of terraces tied by stairways along a central axis. By the end of the 16th century, however, the Belvedere Courtyard was irretrievably altered by construction across the court, effectively dividing what had been a continuous space. …
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