Gubbio is one of the most beautiful medieval towns of Umbria, the green region at the center
Italy, Gubbio is that St. Francis met and tamed the legendary wolf. Located about 500 meters tall and is nestled at the base of Mount Ingino, about 900 meters high.
Since 1981 a group of volunteers provides eugubini staging of what is now known as:
The Christmas Tree The World's Largest ....
Built on the slopes of Mount Ingino overlooking the medieval town of Gubbio, the tree consists of a variety of lighting fixtures to create a very special and unique color effects: more than 250 points of light green outline of the shape of Christmas Tree over 650 meters high with the central body dotted with more than 300 multicolored lights and installed a star on the top surface of 1,000 square meters designed by over 200 points of light.
It 's a realization came in 1991 in the Guinness Book of Records, remains on throughout the Christmas period and is disabled after the Epiphany.
Tens of thousands of people come every year in Gubbio during the Christmas period just to admire the tree.
The implementation is managed each year by a group of "Alberalioli" who do these things not for reward, but out of love for this symbol of brotherhood and friendship and pure dedication to the patron St. Ubaldo and the city of Gubbio . The tree, despite its grandeur, unable to unleash a civil elegance that is transmitted to admire him and encourages him to bringing those virtues that sometimes goes unnoticed in everyday life: patience, understanding, kindness, tolerance and kindness. These virtues are able to bring out feelings strong that resist the erosion of time and enable men to forgive, shake hands and maintain the trust.
Numbers:
1981, the first realization
1000 square surface of the Star
200
lights that help draw the star
260 lights that help draw the outline tree
270 colorful lights present at 'inside the outline of the Tree
8500 ml total length of cables used for connection
650 ml 350 ml
the height of the tree at its base the width of the Tree
1350 outlets and plugs used for connections cables and lights
40 Members of the Committee
7 the number of members of the Executive Council
1900 working hours needed to assemble the Tree
35 the power required to turn all the lights
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