WTI Magazine #74    2015 December 11
Author : folclore.it      Translation by:

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.

It 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.