Origin of the Christmas tree

The ancestral germanic towns had protective trees, pines or firs that were sacred and were related to different Gods. When San Bonifacio cristianizó to these tribes was worth of a very particular sincretismo, using these trees to represent the Santísima Trinidad due to its triangular form. In century XVI, in this same region, the trees began to decorate with fruits and flowers and although these could be considered Christmas the trees older, the inhabitants of the city of Riga, in Latvia, affirm to be the true inventors of the same, originally realised in 1510. Later, for century XVIII, the custom already had extended by central Europe and at the beginning of century XX in almost everybody. Today they stand around 100 million Christmas trees in all the planet and new forms to present, some illuminated ones with optical fiber have even been created or even, of head, hung of the ceiling. There is an enormous variety costumary Christmas around the world that surprises to us; nevertheless, also it is very important to conserve the own traditions, those that us make unique. Who knows, maby, someday extend also by all the planet.