There can have been few Christmas trees more colourful than the one that lit up the town of Rakvere in Estonia two years ago. This tree’s highly contemporary appearance was created using 121 illuminated coloured windows recycled from old houses in the town. Wherever would they think of building a Christmas tree out of cubes? In Brussels, that’s where! However, this light installation didn’t go down well with the public and this year the Belgian capital’s Grand Place will once again be graced by a traditional fir tree. It takes them four weeks to put their Christmas tree up in Dortmund. But then, this 45-metre-high colossus is no ordinary tree—it is actually made of 1,700 individual Norway spruce trees! Galeries Lafayette in Paris sought to draw attention to climate change by transforming itself into an Arctic wonderland. In 2016, all of the decorations, including the more than four-floor-high tree, were made of white paper.
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