Christmas lights around the world

Christmas and New Year holidays with each day closer. It has long been established everywhere, and Christmas trees hung with festive lights. We offer you a nice selection, which you will see pictures of Christmas trees from different countries of our great planet.





1. Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center in New York, the ceremony of lighting the fires which occurred on November 30. (Shannon Stapleton / Reuters)



2. Installed on December 2 Christmas tree on Red Square in Moscow. (Mikhail Metzel / AP)



3. Holiday Lights on the Christmas tree in the center of the German town of Winterberg, in the background the church of St.. Jacob. The lights on the Christmas tree lit this 24 November. (Julian Stratenschulte / AFP - Getty Images)



4. November 29 in Hong Kong, sparked fires on the 30-meter pyramid of crystal blocks on the background of skyscrapers in the financial district. (Ym Yik / EPA)



5. December 7, people gathered for the ceremony of lighting the lights on the Christmas tree in front of the US Capitol. 20-meter Engelmann spruce was cut down in the national reserve Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming. Christmas tree decorated with garlands of energy-saving LED lights and Christmas decorations hand made, residents of Wyoming. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)



6. Buses filled with lights on Oxford Street in London on November 23. (Ian Gavan / Getty Images)



7 The couple goes to the Christmas tree in a shopping center of Tokyo November 24th. (Yuriko Nakao / Reuters)



8. Albert Carver looks at the 15-meter tree, composed of cells for lobster on the island of Beals Island, Maine. The main ports of New England fishing for lobster, participate in the competition for the biggest Christmas tree of cells for lobster. The people creating these trees, they say that in this way they are trying to draw attention to the problem of preservation of maritime heritage and raise funds for charity. (Robert F. Bukaty / AP)



9. The seller of Christmas decorations in the form of stars waiting for buyers at the Christmas market, which traditionally takes place on Berlin's Alexanderplatz. (Markus Schreiber / AP)



10. Couple walking with a dog near the Christmas tree decorated with garlands around the estate in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany. (Martin Meissner / AP)



11. Children sledding near the house decorated with garlands Lutz Pingel in the German city of Dortmund. Every year before Christmas, residents decorate their homes with festive lights. (Ina Fassbender / Reuters)



12. Hundreds of people gathered at the Christmas market in Frankfurt, which officially opened on November 24, the ceremony of lighting the lights on the Christmas tree. (Michael Probst / AP)



13. Illumination of a Christmas tree decorated with St. George monument on Freedom Square in Tbilisi. (Shakh Aivazov / AP)



14. People see in the Christmas illuminations in the Colombian city of Cali. (Jaime Saldarriaga / Reuters)



15. Choristers perform in front of the Christmas tree at Westminster Abbey in London on 6 December. (Facundo Arrizabalaga / EPA)



16. Christmas illuminations decorate Royal Route 2 December. (Radek Pietruszka / EPA)



17. People are standing at the counter of one of the stalls near the biggest Christmas tree in Germany in Dortmund. 45-meter tree is made up of 1700 and Norwegian spruce decorated with 48 thousand light bulbs. Traditional Christmas markets are held in Germany for about 600 years and opened before Christmas, almost all German cities. (Martin Meissner / AP)



18. Fireworks light up the sky near the 37-meter-high Christmas tree in City Palawan, Philippines. Christmas holidays in the Philippines, the largest Asian country where Roman Catholic, starting on December 16 and continue until the feast of the Three Kings in January. (Romeo Ranoco / Reuters)



19. Fireworks over Lake Rodrigo de Freitas during the ceremony of the lighting of the floating Christmas tree in Rio de Janeiro. (Sergio Moraes / Reuters)



20. Decorated with garlands of trees reflected in a puddle in the street Unter den Linden in Berlin ... (Thomas Peter / Reuters)



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