Parco Giardino Sigurtà, Via Cavour, 1, 37067 Valeggio sul Mincio VR, Veneto, Italy

The Viale delle Rose is certainly the image with which the Sigurtà Garden Park has made itself known in the world. Along its kilometer length, more than 30,000 carefully selected roses bloom every spring in two varieties Queen Elizabeth and Hybrid Polyantha & Floribunda. This avenue represents the institutional image of the Park and is one of the most photographed points by visitors: its "telescope" view deceives the visitor's eye, because it gives the impression of being able to reach the Scaligero Castle, built at the end of the 1200 by the Scaligeri, the Lords of Verona, for defensive purposes to control the border; in reality the Viale delle Rose leads to another point of interest in the Park, the Labyrinth. Ippolito Pindemonte, poet of the second half of the eighteenth century, was a relative of the Marquis Antonio Maffei and mentions the view of the Castle in a letter defining it of "rare beauty"; many decades later Mr. Carlo Sigurtà decided to recover this beauty and thus had the beautiful Avenue built, creating the aforementioned visual effect, thanks to the same height of the two hills where the Castle and the Avenue are.