Europe's tallest Christmas tree

This year Europe's tallest Christmas tree stands in Bucharest: it is 76 metres high and made of steel. Bucharest hopes it will gain an entry in the Guinness Book of Records. For his part Adrian Georgescu sees the tree as a monstrosity: "Like all other European capitals, Bucharest decorates itself with bright lights in December, in the same way some Romanians hang chains of blue lights on their rusty old Dacias or spray perfume on their pullovers hoping to disguise the bad smell. ... The city centre looks like a cement disco and has even been given an artistic note: Europe's biggest Christmas tree. At night, when everything looks the same and all the mayors look intelligent, you can let yourself be seduced by the spectacle, but in daylight the tree looks like a spaceship. ... 100,000 people gathered around the tree for its consecration. We are still a simple people who can be bought for a couple of pearls."

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