From late November, the installation of Christmas tree, the main attribute of celebrating Christmas and New Year, began around the world. In some countries, these trees are decorated with traditional garlands, in others these “trees” only superficially resemble the shape of their ancestress, and are pieces of architectural design.
Christmas trees around the world
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Christmas tree decorated with soccer balls in Brazil
© EPA/Marcus Brandt Christmas tree from recycled bottles in Spain's Pamplona
© EPA/VILLAR LOPEZ Christmas tree in Warsaw
© EPA/Maciej Kulczynski Christmas tree in the White House in the U.S.
© EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS Christmas tree in New York
© EPA/JASON SZENES Christmas tree in Stockholm
© ITAR-TASS/EPA/JOHAN NILSSON Christmas tree in Nice
© AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau Christmas tree in front of GUM mall on Red Square
© ITAR-TASS/Pavel Smertin Christmas tree in Beijing
© ITAR-TASS/EPA/ADRIAN BRADSHAW Christmas tree in Lisbon
© ITAR-TASS/EPA/MARIO CRUZ Christmas tree at the Office of the Federal Chancellor of Germany
© ITAR-TASS/EPA/Ole Spata Christmas tree in the Vatican
© ITAR-TASS/EPA/CLAUDIO PERI Christmas tree at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin
© ITAR-TASS/EPA/Bernd von Jutrczenka Christmas tree in Seoul
© EPA/YONHAP Christmas tree in Downing Street in London
© EPA/FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA Christmas tree in Beirut
© EPA/WAEL HAMZEH Christmas tree in Kiev with Yulia Tymoshenko's image
© AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko