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Monday, 18 December 2006, 01:30 GMT
In pictures: Christmas tree world
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It's a Christmas tree but perhaps not as we know it - a 40m (131-foot) giant in the Spanish Basque Country.
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Conventional Christmas trees - like the expanding one in Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker ballet - just seem to get bigger. This one stands at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
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As with Berlin's tree, the one rivalling Nelson's Column on London's Trafalgar Square is a gift from Norway.
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In another European capital, Rome, a Christmas tree has been erected for the first time at the Coliseum
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The Italian town of Gubbio has a giant Christmas tree picked out in lights on nearby Mount Ingino.
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This is one tree you would not want to knock over: a 8.5-m (28-foot) creation by the glass workers of Murano, Venice.
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Russia had "New Year's Trees" in Soviet times. This year, Moscow's Red Square boasts a giant artificial tree but the decoration looks fairly traditional.
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This tree in Rio de Janeiro is not only artificial - it even floats, moored on the Brazilian city's Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon.
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Among the skyscrapers of New York, even the baubles have to be giant, it would seem.
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Coconuts are being used to decorate this giant artificial tree in a suburb of the Philippine capital, Manila.
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And Christmas also increasingly features in non-Christian Asia. Here in Chongqing, China, the tree is made up of 100,000 Coca Cola cans - another Western import...
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But for simplicity itself, here is French artist Geraud Periole's real tree illuminated in festive colours in Geneva, Switzerland.
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