Like every spring, the Roseto Municipal of Rome has opened his gates to the public to show his jewels: beyond 1,100 species of roses Coming from all over the world, a real show of colors and perfumes in one of the most suggestive and romantic places in the capital.
The queens are them, the brazen reds, the refined white, the lively yellow and the delicate, lonely and bunchy rose, with radios and ordered petals and with the most voluminous and broken hair. Come from Spain, like the Irene Joliot Curiefrom Denmark such as the Grenada, from the United States, from China, by Mongolia, and by countries affected by the war that would need such poetry, such as the Zolota Nyva of Ukraine.
A show in the show because it is enough to look around to enjoy the infinite beauty of the Eternal City: from the slopes of the Aventine where the roseto stands, in fact the view to the Circus Maximus is turned and higher at the Palatine with the spa of Maxentius, with a 360 -degree postcard image where the bell tower of Santa Maria in Cosmedin stand out, the dome of the Synagogue, the Vittoriano di Piazza Venezia and the Mario.
A place practically always dedicated and intended for flowers. Already in the third century. AC stood here the temple dedicated to the goddess Flora, to which special celebrations were dedicated in the spring that organized themselves in the adjacent Massimo circus, the so -called floralia. The field then hosted vineyards and gardens, and even, until 1934, the cemetery of the Jews.
It becomes officially Municipal roseto In 1950, to replace the oldest one on the Oppio Colle destroyed during the Second World War, made in 1932 by Countess Mary Gailey Senni, an American noblewoman with a green thumb moved to Rome after the wedding with an Italian count.
It was her the following year that established the Rome prizethe international competition for new varieties of roses obtained from foreign and Italian hybridators, to promote it abroad and to chair its jury for many years. Prize from then on to date still active. The latest edition, held last weekend, rewarded Germany with four awards: the first in the hybrid category of Tea HT, the second for the shrub, the third for Sarmentose and the special prize for the children’s squad.
Italy, a host country, also received more than one prize: it has in fact triumphed in the miniature and cover category and was awarded the Special Prize La Rosa dei Giardinieri di Roma Capitale. A special prize was also awarded to Spain: a rose for peace.
Il Roseto Municipal of Rome It will remain open until June 15, always free of charge, seven days a week. I highly advise you to take a walk among its flowery avenues, on the green hills and under the perfumed pergolas, occasionally raising the eyes with floral wonders to those of the city and enjoying a mouthpiece of relaxing and regenerating oxygen for all the senses.
Patrizia Simonetti
Photo by Patrizia Simonetti
