The world’s largest to date Christmas tree it was exactly 64.6 meters high and was erected in December 1950 in front of a shopping center in Seattle, USA. The impressively tall Christmas tree still holds the Guinness record.
Just for comparison: the five-ton pine tree erected this year in front of the Parliament is three times smaller than its giant American counterpart: “only” 20 meters. This year’s Hungarian Christmas tree, which arrived in front of the Parliament from the garden of a family home in Dubicsány, decorates the square from Advent to Epiphany, and after its dismantling, the wood material – as firewood – was offered to the needy by the Office of the Parliament.
The country’s Christmas tree
Picture: MTI, Péter Lakatos
And the Christmas tree of the British is special because the tree erected in London’s Trafalgar Square is still provided by the Norwegian “rulers”, that is, nowadays the Norwegian government. The first British official Christmas tree was erected in 1947 by VII. King Haakon of Norway gifted it to Great Britain thanks to his country’s support in World War II. At that time, the pine came from the forests of Oslo.
Crowds come out to see the first Norwegian Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square, London in 1947. #trafalgarsquare #1940s pic.twitter.com/GH1wjWxf0V
— Old England in Colour (@englandincolour) December 15, 2024
Meanwhile, in the Azores, in Sao Miguel, there is the tallest living Christmas tree in the world, the specialty of which is that 30 meters tall and planted 150 years ago. The total length of the string lights that have been strung up in the last couple of years is five kilometers.
And on the coast of Lisbon, there is the world’s largest artificial pine, which dwarfs even the largest live pine with its 76 meters.
Source: www.economx.hu
