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# 74 •nECEMBER 14 , 2015
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ITALIAN TRADITIONS:
The world’s biggest
Christmas tree in Gubbio
By www.folclore.it
At the beginning of the holiday season, each
year on the evening of December 7, the day before the Immaculate Conception, the Umbrian
town of Gubbio proceed with the lighting of
the biggest Christmas tree in the world. Laid
down on the slopes of Mount Ingino, overlooking the medieval Umbrian town, the tree is
made up of various types of lighting to create
a very special and unique color effect.
More than 250 green light points outline the
shape of a Christmas tree more than 650 meters (710 yards) high, with the central body
littered with more than 300 multicolored lights and on top a star of about 1,000 square
meters (10.763 square feet) designed by over
200 points of light.
48 trad 2It is a project that in 1991 entered
in the Guinness Book of World Records; it remains lit throughout the Christmas period and
it is dismantled after the Epiphany (January 6).
Tens of thousands of people arrive every year
in Gubbio during the Christmas period just to
admire the tree.
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