'The Mangy One': Romans embrace world's saddest civic Christmas treeRomans seem to have embraced the pathetic state of the Italian capital's Christmas tree, which has become the butt of jokes around the world, hanging notes on "Spelacchio" (The Mangy One). Many see the tree, which cost the city about €50,000 (NZ$78,000), as a symbol of poor city management, filling Mayor Virginia Raggi's Facebook page with their grievances. READ MORE:* She's a hard road finding the perfect Christmas tree* Christmas toilet humour becomes talk of the townMany see the tree as a symbol of poor city management. Il vero testo della determina dirigenzialeWANTEDDEAD OR ALIVEREWARD € 49.000 pic.twitter.com/gyZYj367sr — Spelacchio (@spelacchio) December 19, 2017Ma lui lavora pe principale. https://t.co/w0l80RpJWF — Spelacchio (@spelacchio) December 16, 2017"It is the perfect representation of Rome today: sad, inadequate, lonely," the Corriere della Sera newspaper said in a recent editorial.

Source: Stuff December 23, 2017 20:03 UTC