Warsaw, with Poland’s tallest Christmas tree this year, standing at 27 metres, is competing with other cities for the most spectacular decorations.

The capital city is spending near on 700,000 zloty (not quite 200,000 euro) on lights and decorations in the historic Old Town.

The Baltic port of Gdańsk comes second with a tree that is 24 metres tall, complete with 30,000 lights and 500 decorations – at the cost of 313 thousand zloty (less than 100,000 euro).

The two trees in Wrocław’s Old Town may be only 20 metres tall but the the city is lashing out 1.4 million zloty on illuminations.

Meanwhile Kraków is having a 15-metre tree and spending the not-insignificant sum of 900 thousand zloty on lights and decorations. 

Not surprisingly perhaps, Poznań  - which has a reputation in Poland for being the most tight-fisted city - is seeing a modest bill of 20,000 zloty, only paying to put up the decorations which it bought two years ago.  (ek)

Source: Dziennik Gazeta Prawna