The alderman of Liège nevertheless specifies that “Everything is not dismantled every year. Of course, we maintain the hanging devices for the garlands in the facades and the electrical supply connections to connect all of this to the City’s electrical network. Fortunately, moreover. Otherwise, can you imagine the work each year to place all this”?
Even in Daverdisse, the smallest town in Wallonia, in the Luxembourg Ardennes, the installation of Christmas decorations has now been subcontracted to a private company. And we remove all the illuminations every year after the holidays. “It’s cheaper for us, given what it cost in working time for municipal staff and in equipment maintenance, for example”explains Jean-Claude Vincent, the first alderman in charge of the file. “And it also makes it possible to change these decorations every three years since that’s what was agreed with the private partner company. But it’s true that years ago, before I was alderman, the municipality left certain decorations hanging on the electricity pylons all year round, without turning them on, of course, except during holiday periods”. Elves or shooting stars, for example, which gave a little exotic touch to these Ardennes villages by crossing them under the summer sun.
“And then, removing all the Christmas decorations after the holidays has another advantage”we are told by the municipality of Wavre in Walloon Brabant. “It allows you to reserve this magical atmosphere when you need it a little more, given the weather, at the end of the year”.