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The largest garlands, the most expensive Christmas trees and the most platinum hits - the New Year has its own records. Residential building with the richest and most numerous illumination according to the Guinness Book of Records - the house of David and Janean Richards in the Australian city of Forrest. There are 331,038 light bulbs used in Christmas lights and decorations. The owner of the house spent 4 years creating the light record.
The most expensive Christmas tree decoration was recorded on December 7, 2002 in Tokyo. Piaget Japan decorated the tree with 83 pieces of jewelry worth a total of $16 million.
Largest floating Christmas tree 85 meters high was installed in Rio de Janeiro in 2007. The record was sponsored by the largest Brazilian insurance company, Bradesco Seguros e Previdência.

The biggest Christmas star 31.59 meters high was installed in the Indian city of Kochi on December 31, 2009. The project was realized thanks to the real estate company Apple A Day Properties. The largest stocking for gifts 32.56 meters long and 14.97 meters wide, it was created in 2007 as part of the campaign of the British society for the protection of children's rights, Children's Society.
At the entrance to Singapore's Tanglin Mall in 1996 stood the biggest Santa Claus made of metal and polyurethane foam. The height of the structure reached 15.6 meters and the width was 4 meters. The largest Advent calendar 71 meters high and 23 meters wide was placed at St Pancras station in London in 2007.
The fastest Santa The winner of the traditional Santa Claus race in England, Paul Simons, has been named. In April 2009, he covered the required distance in 2 hours 55 minutes 50 seconds.
Canadian Jean-Guy Laquerre is the winner the largest collection of Christmas symbols. He began collecting it in 1988, and by 2010 it contains more than 25,104 items.
A thirty-centimeter spruce in a pot is considered the oldest Christmas tree. British grandmother Janet Parker bought it back in 1886.
The largest number of light bulbs in a New Year's garland– 150,000 pieces - was recorded on a Christmas tree in Germany in 2006.
American Erin Lavoie capable of cutting down 27 fir trees in 2 minutes and is the absolute record holder in this type of activity. She proved this at the Guinness World Records Championship in 2008.
The largest gathering of Santa Clauses was recorded in Northern Ireland in 2007, it had 13,000 participants.
The largest Christmas choir consisted of 7,514 people gathered in the US state of South Carolina in December 2004.
According to Western tradition, at Christmas it is customary to bake cookies and put a piece of paper in them with the name of the gift. The finished cookies are broken by two people, and the one who managed to break off a larger piece receives a gift. Largest mass cookie breaking event was organized by Vodafone in Britain on December 1, 2011. 566 people took part in it.
The largest number of participants in the anonymous gift exchange game"Secret Santa" numbered 1,270 people. The event took place in the UK in 2008. Largest gathering of people dressed as Christmas turkeys occurred during the 44th Annual Capital One Bank Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot themed ceremony in Dallas, Texas on November 24, 2011. The number of participants was 661 people.
The Beatles are the absolute record holders of the Christmas charts. Their songs repeatedly took first place: December 12, 1963 - the song “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”, December 10, 1964 - “I Feel Fine”, December 16, 1965 - “Day Tripper / We Can Work it Out” and December 6 1967 - “Hello Goodbye”.
Most Consistent Christmas Chart Winners The Beatles and Spice Girls are considered. Both groups were able to stay in first place for three years in a row (1963-1965 The Beatles, 1996-1998 Spice Girls).

Best selling Christmas single became the song “White Christmas” by Bing Crosby. It was first performed in 1942, and since then it has sold more than 100 million records.

Preparations for the New Year begin a month before the celebration. For a long time, the largest Christmas tree in Russia was in Moscow, then in Krasnoyarsk. Since 2014, the largest Christmas tree in Russia has been located in Grozny. It took several weeks to install this beauty.

The Russian record-breaking Christmas tree is located in the center of Grozny, opposite the Grozny City complex. This year the Christmas tree was made from artificial branches for the first time. Previously, the tree was installed using natural spruce branches.

The height of the Christmas tree reaches 50 meters, which is several meters higher than the height of the Krasnoyarsk Christmas tree. It took 12 days of work to install this beauty: 12 workers assembled and decorated it in 2 shifts. By the way, to decorate it, a garland more than 7 kilometers long was required. On the Christmas tree you can see about 3 thousand different colorful toys. And at the top of the tree a bright red star rises proudly. The weight of the New Year's beauty was 100 tons.

The tree installed in Grozny takes 2nd place in the world ranking of the height of New Year trees. First place was given to a floating Christmas tree in Rio De Janeiro, whose height is 84.5 meters. You can admire this beauty from all the embankments of the city.

Among artificial Christmas trees, the giant Christmas tree located in Mexico City is considered to be installed on a solid space. Its height is 110 meters! To imagine its height, you can look at a 40-story building. The Christmas tree was installed within 2 months. More than two hundred workers used three hundred thousand tons of metal structures. It’s hard to imagine how many garlands were used to decorate the record-breaking Christmas tree. It will take workers at least a month to disassemble the beauty.

Until 2014, the Krasnoyarsk Christmas tree was considered the tallest in Russia. Now it occupies an honorable third place in the world rankings, and its height is 46 meters.

Every year, ratings of the tallest Christmas trees in the country and the world are compiled. There are also ratings of the strangest Christmas trees in the world. For example, in London they installed a huge Christmas tree consisting of six hundred neon lamps: an indescribable spectacle. To make a Christmas tree, you can use whatever you have on hand. Some countries took these words literally: Christmas trees were made from bicycles, pipes, grocery strollers, etc.

By the way, in Brazil there was an attempt to install the largest artificial Christmas tree in the world, more than 110 meters high, but part of the structure collapsed during installation. They did not finish building it, taking this as a sign that the world record would not be broken.

In Peru, students created a Christmas tree made from different types of potatoes. This tree was included in the Guinness Book of Records in the category “The most edible tree in the world.”

In pursuit of fame, each country tries to erect the most beautiful and tallest Christmas tree in the world.

In Russia, the tallest Christmas tree is located in Grozny. This beauty, almost 51 meters high, has been pleasing the eyes of city residents since 2014. Before this, the tallest Christmas tree in Russia was considered to be the one located in Krasnoyarsk, whose height reached 46 meters.

We measure sizes in the New Year's way: where is the world's largest Christmas tree installed, where is the most epic skating rink filled and whose fireworks can illuminate the whole city?

The largest Christmas tree in Russia

Square of the Grozny City complex, Grozny

It is unknown for what reasons, but for the second year in a row the leadership of the republic, where the Christmas tree, in general, is not the most familiar New Year’s symbol, is challenging all other regions and winning. Last year there was a champion Christmas tree with a height of 51 meters, this time we managed to get only a 50-meter one. However, this is enough to impress an unprepared person - not every city in the country has ten-story buildings, but here the Christmas tree is almost twice as tall as a typical nine-story building. It is possible, by the way, that this is the tallest tree in the world, it’s just that there has not been a task to compare it yet.

The world's largest bathhouse

Sinsheim, Germany

Well, okay, not quite a bathhouse - a sauna. But in any case, this is a good option for those who remembered the New Year’s tradition of going to the bathhouse, and realized that until the end of the New Year holidays everything is packed. Thermen & Badewelt Sinsheim is in the German city of Sinsheim, the area of ​​the steam room alone is 160 square meters (an aquarium on the entire wall adds a fantastic touch). Keep in mind that in Germany everyone goes to the bathhouse together, and German pensioners are never shy about anything. We've warned you.

The world's northernmost hotel

Radisson Blu in Longyearbyen, Norway

Friends bragging about how they stayed in a hotel made of snow and ice in Finland? Stop their boasting forever - go to the iciest hell for the New Year holidays, but with premium elements. The Radisson Blu Polar Hotel Spitsbergen, which is located in the heart of Longyearbyen, the main city of the archipelago, most often has places during the holidays - few people would think of such a crazy idea as spending a weekend overlooking the fog and an icy fjord, when even moving from one building a hotel building into another - this is some kind of feat.

The biggest fireworks

Dubai

No matter how hard London and Barcelona tried to retain the palm, the sheikhs from Dubai resolved the issue radically. What needs to be done to make the Dubai New Year's fireworks the largest in the world? Write down the recipe. We take the Burj Khalifa and the Dubai Opera and decorate them with fireworks from top to bottom. We launch fiery bird figures into the sky. Adding lasers. We are releasing a couple of annual budgets of the Bryansk region into the air. Don't forget to broadcast on the Internet!

The largest skating rink in the world

VDNH, Moscow

Until the Arab sheikhs decided to break this record, the largest skating rink in the world is located in Moscow, at VDNKh. Construction at one time cost almost a billion rubles. It has been recognized several times by The World Record Academy as the largest artificial ice skating rink on the planet. Its area is 20,549 square meters, it can accommodate 4.5 thousand people (approximately). In the summer it is dismantled, and with the onset of winter it is reassembled. Of course, you can’t do without queues, but you rarely feel lonely at such a skating rink; several New Year’s films already contain scenes of romantic acquaintances at the VDNKh skating rink.

The largest ice slide in Russia

Manezhnaya Square, Moscow

For several years in a row, this ice monster has been erected on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow for the Journey to Christmas festival. As the creators say, modern technologies were used in the design, “after all, skating hills are the favorite attributes of folk festivals in the country.” Special thanks to our ancestors that, through trial and error, they passed on to their descendants a technology thanks to which a person, having rolled down a hundred-meter (!) slide, without being a bobsledder or a luge master, can reach the finish line unharmed. More precisely, it always arrives.

The largest ice town in Russia

Permian

Every year, Perm takes first place - several thousand cubic meters of ice, LED lighting, a 500-meter labyrinth and a cross-cutting theme do their job. By the way, this year the main theme of ice sculptures and buildings is the World Cup. The New Year will pass, but the World Cup will still be held, as the creators seem to hint.

It is impossible to imagine New Year's days without a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. They are installed in city squares for celebrations and holiday celebrations. Let's find out which Christmas trees are considered the tallest.

Decorated New Year's trees, which are installed in all major cities of the world, compete with each other in beauty, unusualness and height. There is a Russian and global rating of the tallest and most beautiful Christmas trees.

The tallest Christmas trees in Russia

Trying to break the capital's Christmas tree record, New Year's holiday trees rose in Yekaterinburg and Krasnoyarsk in 2014, the height of which was forty-six meters. The capital of Tatarstan can also boast of the height of the spruce. It was forty meters.

Artificial New Year trees are not always installed in cities. We know about a giant live spruce that was installed in the Russian capital in 2014. Its height was thirty meters.

The tallest and most unusual Christmas trees

It is not for nothing that Japan is considered the most progressive eastern country. It was in its capital that one could admire the unusual light installation of a Christmas tree created by the artist Masaru Ozaki. Another unusual Christmas tree has decorated London. This light installation consisted of six hundred neon lamps.

One of the most unusual trees is a tree made of multi-colored bicycles. No less unusual is a Christmas tree made of PVC pipes and five-liter plastic containers. Designer Iolanta Sidtin also used plastic bottles to realize her idea. This talented woman created her work in Kaunas from forty thousand plastic bottles. Every year, the fashion house Swarovski decorates an entire Christmas tree in Zurich with crystals of its own production. A Christmas tree made from one hundred kilograms of potatoes of different varieties is considered very unusual. It was created by students in Peru. It was named the largest edible Christmas tree by the Guinness Book of Records.

The original idea came from the artist Anthony Schmitt, who in one of the shopping centers in Santa Monica put up a Christmas tree from the usual shopping carts. Eighty-six carts were used for this structure. The Venetian glass New Year's tree looked amazing. It was installed on the island of Murano. Jack Daniel's whiskey is known throughout the world. The city in which it is produced decided to once again remind everyone of this and built a Christmas tree from one hundred and forty barrels filled with whiskey.

The most expensive Christmas tree in the world has also been determined. Its cost is more than eleven million dollars. Such a high cost is due to the fact that real jewelry was used to decorate the tree. A New Year's beauty was installed in one of the most expensive hotels in Abu Dhabi. But the most delicious is considered to be a Christmas tree made from real chocolate, created by French chocolatier Patrick Roger. The idea of ​​creation also belongs to him. At a height of ten meters, the delicious beauty weighed four tons.

Tallest Christmas tree in the world

The tallest floating Christmas tree has also been determined. It was installed on a metal floating platform on a lake in Rio de Janeiro in 2007. Decorated with three million light bulbs, it soared eighty-two meters.

There are other record-breaking trees in the world. The site has detailed information about the most durable plants.
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The New Year is approaching, one of the brightest holidays. And the theme of the next post will be the New Year tree. And not just one, but three. Well, given the name of this site, of course these will be Christmas trees created by human hands. Each of which is the largest of its kind.

So, this is the world's largest floating tree, simply the world's largest tree, and the world's largest Christmas tree light installation.

The world's largest floating Christmas tree is being installed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Lake Lagoa. This lake is located next to Mount Corcovado, on which it is located. But during the Christmas and New Year holidays, it is the tree that becomes the main attraction of Rio. This year, it is being installed for the 16th time. The tree has a height of 85 meters, and the total weight of the structure is 542 tons. All this is kept afloat by four pontoons with a total area of ​​810 square meters. The Christmas tree is decorated with garlands, the total length of which is 105 kilometers, and the number of lanterns in these garlands is about 3 million 300 thousand pieces. Thanks to this, the New Year's tree can take on a wide variety of colors, and even reproduce animated pictures.

The largest Christmas tree in the world (without any attachments, such as a waterfowl, etc.) is installed in the capital of Mexico, Mexico City. Its height is 110 meters, 35 centimeters. If you ask yourself, why such precision, right down to centimeters? Let me explain. The fact is that the Mexican Christmas tree broke the record of the previous largest Christmas tree in the world (installed in the Brazilian city of Arakahu) by only 24 centimeters!!! However, this was quite enough to enter it into the Guinness Book of Records. This year it is being installed for the 3rd time. The diameter of the Mexican beauty at the base reaches 40 meters, weight - about 300 tons. It takes 80 kilometers of garlands with 1 million 200 thousand light bulbs to decorate the Christmas tree.

However, the largest Christmas tree decoration in the world is not a Christmas tree at all, but a light installation. Since 1981, on Mount Ingino (Italy), several dozen volunteers have installed 8.5 kilometers of electrical cables with 730 multi-colored spotlights. It’s all located in the form of a Christmas tree, the height of which is 650 meters and the width is 350. And when the illumination is turned on, Mount Inzhino takes on this appearance (and everything is visible from a distance of up to 50 kilometers).