As every year around this time, it arrives in the city with a police escort: the Christmas tree for Vienna’s Rathausplatz. Right at 10 a.m., camera crews gather on site, just as announced in the press release. Traditionally, a different Austrian federal state donates the tree each year, but this time Vienna gave itself the gift. Two weeks later it will be lit for the opening of the Christmas market, and after the holidays it will leave the square quite inconspicuously, without any escort.
Vienna’s Christmas Tree Arrives
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As every year around this time, it arrives in the city with a police escort: the Christmas tree for Vienna’s Rathausplatz. Right at 10 a.m., camera crews gather on site, just as announced in the press release. Traditionally, a different Austrian federal state donates the tree each year, but this time Vienna gave itself the…