Christmas Tree Light Up: Rockefeller Center, Manhattan - New York City (USA)

This aproximately 75 year old Norway spruce tree, measuring 76 foot and weighting 12 tons, made the 70-mile trip to N.Y city on a tractor-trailer from Conneticut last month.
 It is decorated with 45,000 multi-colored LED lights and a 9 ½-foot-wide Swarovski star on its top.
The lighting up is part of a tradition started in 1933.

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Trafalgar Square (London): Christmas Tree

This Christmas tree is usually over 20 metres tall and it´s typically a 50-60 years old Norway spruce, sent to Great Britain by ship.

It is a present to the people of Britain by the city of Oslo (Norway) since 1947, as sign of gratitude for the british support during the Second World War.