Tree has been dubbed ‘spelacchio’, meaning bald or mangy, after it lost most of its pine needlesRomans are up in arms over the city’s Christmas tree that has been dubbed “Spelacchio”, which roughly translated means mangy or baldy. It hurts even to look at this Christmas tree,” one Roman resident said, using an Italian term suggesting it looked like a plucked chicken. “How can they have put it in Rome, a capital city like Rome,” said the woman, who declined to give her name. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Rome’s official Christmas tree stands in front of the Unknown Soldier monument in Piazza Venezia Square. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tourists take pictures near the controversial Christmas tree.

Source: The Guardian December 20, 2017 00:33 UTC