Holiday lights are everywhere – and they look a little different in each place. In recent weeks, Associated Press photographers have been documenting sparkling scenes around the world.
In the village of Jemez Springs, New Mexico, traditional luminaries, also known as farolitos, illuminated the Jemez Historic Site during the annual "Lights of Gisewa" event held last week.
That same day, on the other side of the world in Moscow, one could peer out the window of the Baltschug Kempinski Hotel toward St. Basil's Cathedral and the GUM department store, illuminated with festive lights for the holidays.
Meanwhile in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the local zoo, performers in glowing costumes with wings greeted visitors to the Christmas Lights Festival.
And in New York, the famous Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center stands in all its glory – a Norway spruce from a small town in Massachusetts, decorated with 50,000 colored lights. At the top of the giant tree is a Swarovski star crown, adorned with three million crystals.
In Germany, a 42-meter-high, bright red candle (a medieval tower, actually) shone in the historic center of the city of Schlitz in late November. In Milan, Italy, it was a symphony of gold as people stood on a bridge and Christmas lights illuminated the Drasna dei Navigli, the neighborhood named after the canals that run through the area.
Reindeer figures sparkled in Hong Kong as part of the Christmas decorations on the promenade. In Tokyo, people strolled through an entire forest of sparkling trees in the Roppongi area, decorated with hundreds of thousands of blue LED lights.
At the Houston Space Center, a child jumped between colorful circles, part of a space-themed holiday light display, next to a model of the Space Shuttle Independence. In London, illuminated angels spread their wings above Regent Street, thanks to hundreds of thousands of LED lights on the busy shopping street.
And sometimes, nature does its own magic. That's exactly what happened when a supermoon rose last month in Santiago, Chile, perfectly surrounded by festive star-shaped street lights.
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