EARLIER THIS MONTH, a luxury hotel in Abu Dhabi unveiled its 46-foot tree complete with around €8.3m in gold and precious jewel decorations.
Other parts of the world have opted for less extravagant gestures with their lights and Christmas decorations, but the effects are no less spectacular:
Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France
The Galeries Lafayette store, Paris, France
Ramallah, the West Bank
The White House, Washington DC, USA
The Rockefeller Center, New York City, USA
St Peter's Square, Vatican City
10 Downing Street, London, UK
Aras an Uachtarain, Dublin
Cluj, Romania
Alaska, USA
Zurich, Switzerland
Warsaw, Poland
Budapest, Hungary
Gimpo, South Korea
Moscow, Russia
Haifa, Israel
Odaiba Beach, Tokyo, Japan
All images sourced through PA.
