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Thursday, December 25

amazing christmas decorations from around the world

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Amazing Christmas Decorations from Around the World

The tradition of using small candles to light up the Christmas tree dates back to at least the middle of the XVIIth century. However, it took two centuries for the tradition to become widely established first in Germany and soon spreading to Eastern Europe.
Candles for the tree were glued with melted wax to a tree branch or attached by pins. Around 1890, candleholders were first used for Christmas candles. Between 1902 and 1914, small lanterns and glass balls to hold the candles started to be used.

Palácio Avenida. Christmas in the enchanted palace is a spectacular public concert in this beautifully lit HSBC historic bank building in downtown Curitba, Brazil, with children in costumes singing out of every window

Boston, MA

Let there be light ... Christmas lights around the world

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Gallery Christmas lights: Le Mans
The light projection by Hélène Richard and Jean-Michel Quesne, aka Skertzo, of a giant stained glass window on to Le Mans Saint-Julien cathedral in western France
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Gallery Christmas lights: Lebanon
Christmas tree in front the Mohammed al-Amin Mosque in downtown Beirut, Lebanon
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Gallery Christmas lights: Gouda
Gouda, Netherlands
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Gallery Christmas lights: Prague
The Old Town Square in Prague, Czech Republic, ablaze with light from its Christmas markets
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Gallery Christmas lights: Athens
Syntagma Square in Athens
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Gallery Light installations: Images by artist Kurt Hentschlager in the Grand Palais Paris
Images by Austrian artist Kurt Hentschlager are projected below the glass roof of the Grand Palais
in Paris
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Gallery Christmas lights: Managua
Nicaragua
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Gallery Light installations: Sculptor Raphael Daden with his illuminated cones
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Gallery Christmas lights: Paris
Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris
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Gallery Christmas lights: Manila
Philippines
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Gallery Light installations: Christmas lights in Brussels
non-traditional Christmas light installation
Brussels
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Gallery Christmas lights: New York
New York
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Gallery Christmas lights: China
Beijing
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Gallery Light installations: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's piece Underscan
interact with light-projected portraits from a video art installation in Trafalgar Square, London
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Gallery Christmas lights: Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland
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Gallery Light installations: Christmas lights in Monte Carlo
Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo
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Gallery Light installations: Christmas tree in Rome
the Piazza di Spagna in Rome,
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Gallery Light installations: Grand Palais in Paris lit by artist Charles Sandison
The facade of Paris's Grand Palais is lit by Scottish artist Charles Sandison as part of the Dans la nuit, des images

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