About 90.000 dwellers of Bucharest met the new year in the street, at one of the several open air concerts that were held. The largest audience was in Constitution Plaza, in front of the Parliamentary Palace, where the municipality was the main organizer. A comparable crowd filled George Enescu Square, in front of the Atheneum […]

A hundred thousand people witnessed the lighting of the tallest Christmas tree in Europe. The artificial tree is 76 m high (about the size of a 25 stores building). The lights decorating this tree weight 290 tons. The star on the tree top is 3.5 m high. The ceremony culminated with a giant fireworks display.