Rome hosts a variety of Christmas cribs and Nativity scenes over the festive season each year, in St Peter s Square and in churches around the Eternal City.
<p>The centuries' old silver fir tree that had been destined to become the centerpiece Christmas decoration in St. Peter's Square will now live, perhaps to see another century.</p> <p>Forest service rangers arrived at the scene a mountain grove in central Italy's Monte Castel Barone Nov. 14 to alert workers to halt preparations for felling the tree.</p>
The centuries-old silver fir tree that had been destined to become the centerpiece Christmas decoration in St. Peter’s Square will now live, perhaps to see another century.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) The centuries old silver fir tree that had been destined to become the centerpiece Christmas decoration in St. Peter s Square will now live, perhaps to see another century.
Forest service rangers arrived at the scene a mountain grove in central Italy s Monte Castel Barone Nov. 14 to alert workers to halt preparations for felling the tree.
When it emerged back in 2019 that the small village of Rosello in Italy s central Abruzzo region was donating the tree to the Va