A
picturesque medieval town in northern Italy on Saturday turned on a
giant light installation known as the "World's Biggest Christmas
Tree."
Hundreds of
onlookers, many of them delighted children, watched as a
priest used a tablet computer to switch
on the dazzling display on a hill above
the town
of Gubbio in the Umbria region.
The "tree" is made up
of some 1,000 multi-coloured lights arranged across
a hillside above Gubbio and
stretches to a height of 750 metres (2,461 feet)
and a
maximum width of 450 metres.
The shooting star at
the top of the hill is made up of 250 lights
and covers an area of more than 1,000
square metres (10,760 square feet).
The town in the
Umbria region in northern Italy, which also has
historical links to Saint Francis of Assisi,
began the installation in 1981.
