Where are the baubles? Italian town gets excited for Christmas with unmistakably phallic lights - and you should have seen the turning on ceremony
- A small Italian town has burst onto social media after a photo of their Christmas lights display on palm trees goes viral due to its unmistakably phallic nature
- The town is excited for their new found fame, and officials hope the display brings more people to the area to take photos and boost the economy
- The lights on the palms go up the base of the tree to the palm's bulbous top before being strewn out on the leaves in single spurts
Christmas is coming! At least that's what a holiday light display is supposed to announce. Mission accomplished?
These phallically decorated palm trees in a small town in Italy have burst onto social media, garnering lots of attention for the obvious.
The photo of Christmas lights on palm trees in Civitanova Marche has gone viral and the town's people are excited for their new found fame.
'Absolutely hilarious! Always good to celebrate the town council's sparkly erections at the annual Winter Festival – it's worth the council tax alone!' a town local said, according to IBTimes.
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The image went viral after being picked up by the Twitter account You Had One Job
The image was picked up by the Twitter account 'You Had One Job' and was posted with the caption 'Why you don't put Christmas lights on palm trees.'
The lights, which cover the entire palm tree base, with a wider, bulbous section at the top- are made that much more inappropriate as the lights are strewn out on the leaves in spurts.
Another presumably Italian person added to the Twitter thread: 'We are proud of our Italian trash.'
Many people were guessing if the inappropriately decorated palm trees were in the United States.
Many hazard guesses that the display was in Florida, while others thought Arizona perhaps.
The town officials are taking the good natured ribbing in stride however, and hope the display brings more people to the town to see their version of a white Christmas, and pump up the economy.
Another Twitter user suggested 'I don't think that's what's meant by a happy ending to the year.'
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