Advent

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Advent - a week of Advent. Begins in late November or early December. Early dusk. Long night. Time of repentance (the priests in the church dressed in purple - the color of penance), and together, the waiting time of the holiday. At the beginning of Advent establish urban trees. It so happened that I was in my travels twice would find this very wonderful moment.
First - to Santiago de Compostela. I have not been able to think that here, where we drove 200 km, since one of the most important monuments in Europe, I was distracted by the Christmas tree. However, it was impossible not to distract. Team of workers, many chiefs, came to the faucet. Hooked and lifted up. She is a huge, whirling around on its axis, it was lowered, but they could not fix in a heap of some artificial stones. And hung. The end of the scene we have not waited - 200 km. in the opposite direction would ride until dark.
Second - on a more modest view, of course, the case. But also unexpected. (Although, when you travel in late November, we must get used to). This is already in the fabulous city of Sansepolcro (Tuscany) - the home of Piero della Francesca - I was in a museum. The famous fresco by Piero's Resurrection of Christ is located in the hall with a glass door now and open directly on a city street. By this window and swam a huge tree. The machine was trying to turn in a narrow street, but on the other side of the street market and worked to pass was impossible. Both tree and got stuck, probably until tomorrow, when traders have moved to another town.
In the same day, someone saw the tree was brought to Paris. But I have found this tree in all its glory.