Rome Rose Garden, also known as Il Roseto, is a public garden in
Rome
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,
Italy
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, located opposite the
Circus Maximus
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on the
Aventine Hill
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Location and boundaries
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The park was established in 1931. Over 1100 varieties of
rose
A rose is either a woody perennial plant, perennial flowering plant of the genus ''Rosa'' (), in the family Rosaceae (), or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred Rose species, species and Garden roses, tens of thousands of cultivar ...
s are grown there, many of them gifts from countries around the world. The Rome Rose Garden covers 10,000 m square and each section has rose varieties characteristic of, or grown in, the respective variety.
The park also has an experimental section where new varieties of roses are tested for their suitability for public and private gardens in Italy.
History
In this site, near the
Roman Ghetto
The Roman Ghetto or Ghetto of Rome () was a Jewish ghettos in Europe, Jewish ghetto established in 1555 by Pope Paul IV in the Sant'Angelo (rione of Rome), Rione Sant'Angelo, in Rome, Italy, in the area surrounded by present-day Via del Porticus ...
, since 1645 until 1934 was in place the Jewish cemetery in Rome. Because of that, the site was named by the Roman people "Ortaccio degli ebrei" (). In 1934 the Jewish community of Rome obtained as cemetery a section of the monumental cemetery of
Campo Verano
The Campo Verano (Italian: ''Cimitero del Verano'') is a cemetery in Rome, Italy, founded in the early 19th century. The monumental cemetery covers a surface area of 83 hectares which is currently divided into several sections: the main Catholic ...
. To remember the past of the garden, the ensemble of its footpaths was designed as a reproduction of the
Menorah. The original design for the park was drawn up in 1931 by countess
Mary Gayley Senni, with 300 roses.
Planting goals
When selecting the rose varieties, one of the goals was to show different groups of roses, the products of early breeding of roses and modern roses such as Hybrid roses, miniature roses, rose shrubs, and modern climbers.
Another goal was to demonstrate various garden possibilities: Blossoming swathes of colour, roses climbing up pergolas and pillars, "sculpted" rose shrubs, rambling roses, standards roses, roses with decorative fruit, hedges made up of rose bushes, and more.
See also
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Rose garden
A rose garden or rosarium is a garden or park, often open to the public, used to present and grow various types of garden roses, and sometimes rose species. Designs vary tremendously and roses may be displayed alongside other plants or grouped ...
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Rose gardens in Italy
Rome R. XII Ripa
Jewish Roman (city) history