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The Official Tree of Greece

From deTraci Regula, About.com

Athens Greece Christmas TreePhoto copyright City of Athens Mayor's Office; used by permission.
For a few years, Athens had the distinction of having the largest municipal tree in Europe. But the competition wore thin and previous mayor (and now Foreign Minister of Greece) Dora Bakoyannis decided to scale back the tree to a more reasonable size rather than be in constant competition with the rest of the European Union. The current Mayor of Athens, Theodoros Bechrakis, is also exercising diplomatic restraint, once again proving that bigger is not better after all.

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