The tree of Christmas of the Rockefeller Center arrived in New York City on Saturday, marking the start of the holiday season in the Big Apple.
He fir 74-foot Norwegian ship was transported to the Center Manhattan Plaza to be placed with the help of a crane. It will take 8 kilometers (5 miles) of lights with more than 50,000 multicolored LED bulbs to wrap around the tree, which measures 13 meters (43 feet) in diameter.
He will be crowned by a star resplendent Swarovski with 3 million crystals.
A journey of 225 kilometers
The imposing coniferousdonated by the Albert family of West Stockbridge, Massachusettswas cut down Thursday morning and traveled 225 kilometers (140 miles) on the bed of a truck. It is the first tree of Christmas of the Rockefeller Center which comes from Massachusetts since 1959.
The ceremony of lightning is scheduled for 4 December.
whenever unmounted In January, the tree will be turned into wood for Habitat for Humanity.
