Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Plaza

Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Plaza

November 30, the last day of autumn, a ceremony of lighting the main Christmas tree USA. Giant spruce height 22,5 m was installed at the central square of New York’s Rockefeller Plaza in mid-November. It took workers several weeks to decorate this gigantic green beauty: a garland for decoration, used a length of 8 kilometers from the 30,000 light bulbs and eat the top capped a huge star from Swarovski crystals. The annual opening ceremony of the Christmas tree is an important tradition initiated by the 30's, during the Great Depression. How many years before, in the ceremony to light the lights on the fir, whose age is 75 years old, attended the well-known singers, actors and journalists. Christmas Ceremony