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Added on the 01/12/2021 17:45:33 - Copyright : Euronews EN
It's that time of year again. The lights on the world's largest Christmas tree flickered on for the first time on Monday as Dortmund's Christmas market was opened to the public. That's right, the world's largest Christmas tree can be found in Dortmund, Germany. Standing at a whopping 45 meters, or 147 feet tall, Dortmund's tree is not actually a single tree. In fact, the gigantic tree is build by a construction company out of 1,700 other fir trees and weighs a combined 40 tons.
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Activists from the French environmental group Derniere Renovation spray orange paint at the foot of the giant Christmas tree at Strasbourg's Christmas market to highlight climate inaction as COP28 gets underway in Dubai. IMAGES
The Vatican puts up a 27-metre-high silver fir tree in the centre of St Peter's Square. The tree, which weighs 6.5 tonnes, comes from a forest in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. IMAGES