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Is this Christmas tree ‘the epitome of bad taste?’
Rome city council took down a giant white papier-mache Christmas tree Tuesday, just one day after putting it up on a main square, following a storm of protests, officials said.
“I don’t like it,” mayor Gianni Alemanno said of the conical structure more reminiscent of the Egyptian obelisks that adorn the Eternal City’s many historic squares than of the traditional symbol of the Christmas holiday.
Stefano Pedica, a senator from the Italy of Values party, said: “The tree on Piazza Venezia is the epitome of bad taste.”
Odd Christmas photo of the day
A car carrying an illuminated Christmas tree and people dressed as Father Frost, the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus, drives along a road in the suburbs of Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Dec, 6, 2011. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)
Odd Christmas photo of the day
A man dressed as Santa Claus walks under the Christmas tree set at the Puerta del Sol square in Madrid, Spain, December 2, 2011. (Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images)
Odd Christmas photo of the day
Birds take to the air as a helicopter flies over the Swiss Parliament building transporting the annual Christmas tree for the Federal square in Bern, November 30, 2011. (Pascal Lauener/Reuters)
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