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By: EFE
Wednesday, October 30
The 113-year-old tree that will illuminate this Christmas in St. Peter's Square
Christmas tree that will decorate during these holidays the St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican has been installed in front of the Basilica, although its lighting and inauguration will be the next 10 from December, kicking off a festival marked by the increase in coronavirus infections in Italy.
The tree is a spruce of 113 years old weighing 8, 000 kilos, measures 28 meters and comes from the forests of sustainable forest management of Andalo , a municipality of the region from Trentino (northern Italy).
Fir will be decorated with original wooden spheres also from Trent ino and will shine next to the central obelisk in St. Peter’s Square, created by the sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Together with him you will be able to visit the Vatican Nativity Scene , which is still being installed and which this year It has been designed by five artists from the Chopcca people of Huancavelica, in the Peruvian Andes.
The inauguration of the tree and the manger will take place on 10 December in a ceremony that will preside the Spanish Archbishop and President of the Governorate of the Vatican City State, Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, and who will follow the prevention measures for the pandemic.
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