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A covered stairway with blue wisteria growing on pergolas leads us onto the Rose Terrace. Here, within an arabesque balustrade, mindful of an old and absolutely English badminton court, in geometric flowerbeds, from May to October, ancient varieties of beautiful, scented French and English roses flower. In the middle stands a light stone meridian, on the outer edges, four ornamental statues: Flora, goddess of Flowers and Spring, Leda with Swan, and two wrestlers, Damosseno and Greucante. Near this last, as a further invitation to rest and meditation, a seat bearing a poetic inscription by the Persian Omar Khayyam: “Oh moon of my delight which knows no decline, the moon in the sky is rising once more, thus, as it rises again in future, peeping through this very garden, it shall seek us in vain.”See Photogallery
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