Let there be light!
During Christmas, the streets and houses lit with colorful lights, Christmas trees grow on the main squares of cities, as people rush for gifts.
(13 photos)
1. People walk under Christmas lights at Puerta del Sol in Madrid. Every year, the Spanish capital is decorated with beautiful holiday lights, but this year, streets have been decorated with the same lights due to the economic crisis. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez / Getty Images)
2. The world's largest Christmas tree on water in Rio de Janeiro. Its height is 84 meters, and illuminate its 3.3 million lights. (Rocio Badiola / EPA)
3. Salisbury Cathedral candles light choristers during the annual procession "from darkness to light" in Salisbury, England. The service begins in complete darkness, and then in the West wing light the main candle. (Matt Cardy / Getty Images)
4. Here is a 12-ton Christmas tree at Rockefeller center in new York. (Stan Honda / AFP - Getty Images)
5. The Christmas decorated house on the street of the German town Calle in Bremen. The inscription reads: "merry Christmas". (Morris Mac Matzen / Reuters)
6. She takes the salute at the ceremony of the lighting of the Christmas tree in the centre of Sofia. (Stoyan Nenov / Reuters)
7. About 70 000 people admire the illuminations in the shopping center of Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. The annual light festival, which began in 1995 to raise the spirits of the people after the earthquake, will last until December 12. (AFP — Getty Images)
8. Brothers 3-year-old Beckman, 6-year-old Preston and 5-year-old Westley Giang sitting next to decorative garlands from his home in Brea, California. (Mindy Schauer / Orange County Register via AP)
9. Christmas lights in the shape of the Eiffel tower, near the present (in the background) in Paris. (Mal Langsdon / Reuters)
10. The girls go shopping on the street decorated South Molton Street in London. (Dan Kitwood / Getty Images)
11. Trumpeter in the tower of old town square in Prague. (David W Cerny / Reuters)
12. Christmas lights in the centre of Vienna. (Lisi Niesner / Reuters)
13. Christmas tree on the street in Berlin. (Wolfgang Kumm / EPA)
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