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The \"Roseto Botanico Gianfranco and Carla Fineschi\", in Italy, boasts more than 6,500 species and it is considered a living museum of roses....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLEADIN: The largest private rose garden in the world has reopened to the public. The \"Roseto Botanico Gianfranco and Carla Fineschi\", in Italy, boasts more than 6,500 species and it is considered a living museum of roses. STORYLINE:Nestled in the Tuscan countryside, this garden holds one of the world's largest collection of roses. Called the 'Roseto Botanico Gianfranco and Carla Fineschi', it's been managed by the Fineschi family for three generations. Every year the 3-hectare botanical rose garden reopens to the public in May, when the plants are in full bloom. Near the entrance, a plaque welcoming visitors reads, \"Come into my garden. I would like my roses to see you\".  Rambaldo Fineschi started the collection after the Second World War, gathering about 500 plants on his estate. When he died, he passed it to his son Gianfranco Fineschi, who expanded the collection and transformed it into a botanic garden. He named it \"Roseto Botanico Carla Fineschi\" after his wife. Since the death of Gianfranco Fineschi in 2010, his three daughters have managed the garden and have added their father's name to garden, which is now known as \"Roseto Botanico Gianfranco e Carla Fineschi\".Gianfranco's daughter, Cristina Fineschi says: \"We can't let it go to waste because behind this there is a lot of research, a lot of study, a lot of passion, a lot of curiosity and mostly a lot of insatiability which had always seemed unbearable to us. But now that he's gone, the duty to preserve memories seems to us to be a priority in life. And therefore we continue to maintain this rose garden which, in fact, is a museum, because you see, everything that is here, every rose is different from the other.\" Silvia Fineschi is another of Gianfranco's daughters and a researcher at IPP - CNR (Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, Italian National Research Centre). She describes the garden as a living museum for the rose flower.\"The rose market is a market, and, as such, has to respect some standards. Sometimes there are some roses, maybe beautiful, which are ousted out by other equally beautiful but newer roses, and therefore (those roses) are withdrawn from the market, from catalogues. This mostly concerns roses dating back to the last century but also roses dating back to the '40s, '50s and even '70s, which simply are not sold anymore even by their hybridisers; but here they are collected, conserved, and it has happened that some hybridisers have come here looking for their own roses which they didn't have anymore.\" A mosaic of colours is on display - the golden-yellow of the Sahara rose and the classic Gay Gordon are among thousands of varieties here. Visitors come to seek out rare flowers or just enjoy the colourful displays.  \"I was impressed by the ramblers. Those are roses which have this beauty and they combine this aesthetic aspect with this upward thrust toward the sky which creates really beautiful images,\" visitor, Lionello Rabatti says.In addition to a proud peacock, cats and dogs live freely in the grounds. \"This garden is well organised, well established, there is also the beauty of peacocks, free roaming animals, and therefore it is unique,\" says Pierluigi Pennacchia, a tourist from Rome.The roses ooze history as well as beauty -  here, the Rosa Alba - the symbol of the York family during the English War of Roses (1455 - 1487). The garden is also of great scientific value to academics around the world.  Prof. Francesco Ferrini is Professor of Arboriculture and Dean of the School of Agriculture at the University of Florence.He says \"the \"Roseto Fineschi\" has one peculiarity: it is the biggest private rose collection in the world, and it's one of the widest collections of roses in the world, because in this small, tiny garden are conserved more than 8,000 different kinds of roses, including 6,500 species and varieties of different roses, from the antique roses to the modern roses, ramblers and climbers.\"Here, for example, is a collection of miniature roses by Ralph Moore, one of the most important American hybridisers. \"Preserving biodiversity is one of the most important things in the present world. We have lost a lot of different species and genres in the last 50 years because of the intensive agriculture because selecting ornamental species for growth or for flowering, and sometimes all these new varieties, species, hybrids, are not so resistant to pathogens or to insects or not so tolerant to abiotic (environmental ie. light or temperature) stresses,\" says Ferrini. When he was alive, Gianfranco Fineschi was famous for being one of the most important doctors and surgeons in Italy, having even operated on Pope John Paul II and the former President Sandro Pertini. \"My father was an orthopaedic surgeon, he dedicated all his life with extreme rigour to his work and dedicated this rigour also to the study of the rose, which was one of his two great passions along with music,\" says Silvia Fineschi.  \"Today, with the benefit of hindsight, I have to say that it is easy to get passionate about rose because this is a plant so rich in varieties, shapes, colours, fragrances, postures, it is so rich in history, and therefore it is also a plant rich in biodiversity, and I imagine that my father, being, in fact, a scientist, must have automatically become very keen also on the biodiversity of the roses.\"The botanic garden is located in Cavriglia, near Arezzo, and is open to the public between May and August. Events, such as botanical meetings and conferences, are organised during the rest of the year.Cavriglia, Arezzo, Italy - 7 May 20171. Wide inside the Botanical Rose Garden \"Gianfranco e Carla Fineschi\" with the Tuscan countryside in the background2. Close of rose (Cl. First Prize)3. Roses4. Various of Rosa Foetida5. Cristina Fineschi walking through the garden with visitors6. Cristina Fineschi indicating a marble plaque on a wall of the rose garden7. Close of marble plaque reading (English) \"Come into my garden. I would like my roses to see you. Richard Brinsley Sheridan.\"8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Cristina Fineschi, owner of the Botanical Rose Garden and daughter of Gianfranco Fineschi \"We can't let it go to waste because behind this there is a lot of research, a lot of study, a lot of passion, a lot of curiosity and mostly a lot of insatiability which had always seemed unbearable to us. But now that he's gone, the duty to preserve memories seems to us to be a priority in life. And therefore we continue to maintain this rose garden which, in fact, is a museum, because you see, everything that is here, every rose is different from the other.\" 9. Close of rose (Generosa)10. Wide of the garden 11. Close of rosebud (Herero)12. Silvia Fineschi walking through the garden with her dog13. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Silvia Fineschi, owner of the Botanical Rose Garden and daughter of Gianfranco Fineschi \"The rose market is a market, and, as such, has to respect some standards. Sometimes there are some roses, maybe beautiful, which are ousted out by other equally beautiful but newer roses, and therefore (those roses) are withdrawn from the market, from catalogues. This mostly concerns roses dating back to the last century but also roses dating back to the '40s, '50s and even '70s, which simply are not sold anymore even by their hybridisers; but here they are collected, conserved, and it has happened that some hybridisers have come here looking for their own roses which they didn't have anymore.\" 14. Close of rose (Sahara)15. Close of rose (Gay Gordon)16. Peacock in the garden17. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Lionello Rabatti, visitor \"I was impressed by the ramblers. They are roses which have this beauty and they combine this aesthetic aspect with this upward thrust toward the sky which creates really beautiful images.\" 18. Rambler roses19. Close of roses (Tea Rambler)20. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Pierluigi Pennacchia, visitor\"This garden is well organised, well established, there is also the beauty of peacocks, free roaming animals, and therefore it is unique.\"21. Peacock in the garden with roses22. Noisette roses (Marechal Niel)23. Close of rose (Alba)Florence - 11 May 201724. Various of Prof. Francesco Ferrini at his desk25. SOUNDBITE (English) Prof. Francesco Ferrini, Dean of the School of Agriculture of the University of Florence\"The \"Roseto Fineschi\" has one peculiarity: it is the biggest private rose collection in the world, and it's one of the widest collections of roses in the world, because in this small, tiny garden are conserved more than 8,000 different kinds of roses, including 6,500 species and varieties of different roses, from the antique roses to the modern roses, ramblers and climbers.\"Cavriglia, Arezzo, Italy - 7 May 201726. Ralph Moore's Beauty Secrets Miniature Roses27. Close of Beauty Secrets Florence - 11 May 201728. SOUNDBITE (English) Prof. Francesco Ferrini, Dean of the School of Agriculture of the University of Florence\"Preserving biodiversity is one of the most important things in the present world. We have lost a lot of different species and genres in the last 50 years because of the intensive agriculture because selecting ornamental species for growth or for flowering, and sometimes all these new varieties or species or hybrids, are not so resistant to pathogens or to insects or not so tolerant to abiotic stresses.\"Cavriglia, Arezzo - 7 May 201729. Wide of visitors outside the Botanical Rose Garden 30. Close of rose (Aschermittwoch)31. Close of rose (Lili Marlene)32. Various of Silvia Fineschi showing a map of the rose garden33. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Silvia Fineschi, owner of the Botanical Rose Garden and daughter of Gianfranco Fineschi \"My father was an orthopaedic surgeon, he dedicated all his life with extreme rigour to his work and dedicated this rigour also to the study of the rose, which was one of his two great passions along with music.\" 34. Photos in frames of Gianfranco Fineschi (from the left: Gianfranco Fineschi; Gianfranco Fineschi shaking hand with Sandro Pertini, 7th President of Italian Republic; Gianfranco Fineschi with Pope John Paul II; Gianfranco Fineschi)35. Photo of Gianfranco Fineschi with Pope John Paul II36. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Silvia Fineschi, owner of the Botanical Rose Garden and daughter of Gianfranco Fineschi \"Today, with the benefit of hindsight, I have to say that it is easy to get passionate about roses,  because this is a plant so rich in varieties, shapes, colours, fragrances, postures, it is so rich in history, and therefore it is also a plant rich in biodiversity, and I imagine that my father, being, in fact, a scientist, must have automatically become very keen also on the biodiversity of the roses.\"37. Close of rosebud (Prominent)38. Close of roses (Leda)39. Close of rose (Blue Moon)40. 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