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The Avenue of the
Roses is certainly the image which has done most to contribute to
the Sigurtà Garden Park being known all around the world. In the
spring, along its kilometre length, there bloom more than 30,000
highly selected Queen Elizabeth and Hybrid Polyantha & Floribunda
roses.
In the distance beyond
the avenue rises the majestic Scaliger Castle (tenth to fourteenth
century) where the perspective makes it seem an integral part of the
garden's architecture.
The Maze is the
Garden's new attraction, the maze, was opened to the public.
Visitors can make their way into the extraordinary labyrinth of
hedges made up of 1,500 yew trees (Taxus baccata). The path winds
its way among the two-metre tall evergreens that stretch over a
rectangular area of 2,500 square metres.
At the centre of the
maze rises a tower, inspired by the one in the Bois de Boulogne in
Paris, with a copper-roofed dome and two opposing stairways, taking
the visitor up to a height of two and a half metres. To ascend the
tower is reward for the visitor's persistence as it affords a fine
view of the geometry of the maze and of the other natural
attractions of the Garden.
Hidden in the Park is
a small area where the Sigurtà family decided to grow around 40
different plants with special therapeutic properties: The Medicinal
Herbs Garden. At the centre is the statue of a lion, by the sculptor
Giuseppe Brigoni (1901-1960), standing guard over the ancient herbs
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