Athens
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12
2022
Lighting of Athens' Christmas Tree this evening
The City of Athens will complete its preparations for the Christmas holidays with the lighting of a spectacular Christmas tree at 19:15 on Thursday, December 1st, 2022, at Syntagma Square in downtown Athens.
The City of Athens will complete its preparations for the Christmas holidays with the lighting of a spectacular Christmas tree at 19:15 on Thursday, December 1st, 2022, at Syntagma Square in downtown Athens.
The 21-meter-high Christmas tree, which travelled from the town of Karpenissi to Athens, will be illuminated by 5km of 40,000 small lights and is decorated by hundreds of balls and other ornaments.
More than 120km of Christmas lights, 15km more than the previous year, are already adding festive cheer to the districts and neighbourhoods of Athens this year.
This special holiday will this year also have an international character, as mayors from all over the world will take part, along with Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis, in the lighting of the Christmas tree in Athens, sending a strong message of peace, unity, and solidarity between peoples.
