Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Rome paid $57,000 for a very sad Christmas tree that locals nicknamed ‘toilet brush’

Rome paid $57,000 for a very sad Christmas tree that locals nicknamed 'toilet brush'

It sounded like a tree Strega Nona would love: a sprawling 70-foot beauty, shipped straight from the Italian alps. Instead, it's become an eyesore and a joke, a droopy metaphor of decay and dysfunction in Italy's capital city. Roman officials paid $57,000 to transport the tree from the Dolomites, in northern Italy. They decked it out […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/12/20/rome-paid-57000-for-a-very-sad-christmas-tree-that-locals-nicknamed-toilet-brush/

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