PICTURES: First Look at Vatican City’s Huge Christmas Tree at St Peter's Square

The tree is a spruce from the Friuli Venezia Giulia region/ AFP Image

The switching-on ceremony will take place on 7 December. It will be dismantled on 13 January./AP Image

But not everyone was impressed. "It's not the nicest tree in the world," complained one German visitor./AP Image

Nuns mingled with tourists as the spruce - from a forest in the northern Italian town of Pordenone - was set in place./AP Image

The Christmas tree was installed outside St Peter's Basilica./AP Image

NEW DELHI: A giant Christmas tree, 21 metres (68 feet) high, was installed at the centre of the square./AP Image