On December 1, the famous Rockefeller Center Christmas tree will be lit

It is a “Norway spruce” from 60 feet tall ( 24, 80 meters), 46 feet wide (14 meters) and 12 tons and, contrary to other years when it usually comes from New York, Pennsylvania or New Jersey, this time was donated by a family from Elkton, in Ma ryland .

The most famous tree in New York will be cut on 11 November and will arrive at Rockefeller Center two days later to be adorned with more than 50, 000 lights and the Swarovski crystal star , from 900 pounds (408. 23 kilos).

Until the first days of January

Fir can be visited until the first days of January .

Last year and due to the pandemic, the ignition was made in the presence of only one handful of people.

In 1971, with the ecological trend of caring for the planet and natural resources, it was decided to recycle the tree and from the 2007 LED lights are used for power consumption.

The first Christmas tree that was installed in the Rockefeller was placed in 1931 by construction workers at the site where that center was being built, and the first formal lighting ceremony took place in 1931.

In 1942 were placed three trees that were adorned with red, white balls and blue, to support the troops fighting in World War II.

The trees of that year and those that were placed in the Successive Christmases, until the end of the war in 1945, were not decorated with lights because of the regulations that governed the armed conflict. The same colors of the tree of 1942 were used to decorate the pine of Christmas of 2001, after the attacks of 11 September of that year.

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