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With dazzling lights, decorated Christmas trees, and people thronging markets to shop for the festival, it is already beginning to look like Christmas. The annual celebration commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ. Let's take a look at the stunning pictures from around the world giving a glimpse into the preparation ahead of Christmas.
A kid rides a bicycle to power a Christmas lights installation in a Budapest district square to save costs with sustainable lights in Budapest, Hungary. (REUTERS/Marton Monus)
Staff of the Royal Collection pose for a photograph with newly installed Christmas decorations in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Britain. (REUTERS/Peter Nicholls)
Women from Ukraine dressed up as angels pose as they collect donations for Ukrainian children at the Christmas market in front of Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin, Germany. (REUTERS/Lisi Niesner)
The crescent moon sets beyond towers at the Country Club Plaza shopping district in Kansas City, Missouri. Buildings at the shopping center have been outlined with Christmas lights for more than 90 years to mark the holiday season. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
People visit "Nuernberger Christkindlesmarkt" (Christ Child Market), one of the world's oldest Christmas markets, in Nuremberg, Germany. (REUTERS/Heiko Becker)
Teresa Windschall, dressed as a gold-foiled Christ Child, recites the traditional prologue for the opening ceremony of the famous "Nuernberger Christkindlesmarkt" (Christ Child Market) one of the world's oldest Christmas markets in Nuremberg, Germany. (REUTERS/Heiko Becker)
A Christmas tree is illuminated as the traditional Christmas market opens at the Old Town Square in Prague, Czech Republic. (REUTERS/David W Cerny)
Christmas ornaments are seen at "Nuernberger Christkindlesmarkt" (Christ Child Market). REUTERS/Heiko Becker
Trees intended to portray a first woodland snowfall line the East Colonnade as Christmas decorations on the theme "We the People" are unveiled during a press tour ahead of holiday receptions by U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
People gather next to the Christmas tree at the Christmas market in Tallinn, Estonia. (REUTERS/Ints Kalnins)
Christmas decorations depicting U.S. President Joe Biden's dog Commander are seen during a press tour ahead of holiday receptions by President Biden and first lady Jill Biden, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
People visit a Christmas market in Budapest, Hungary. (REUTERS/Marton Monus)
The US Capitol Christmas tree stands on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S. (REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger)
The Washington Performing Arts Children of the Gospel Choir participates in a Christmas tree lighting ceremony outside of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S. (REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger)
People walk on a road downtown on the day the Spanish capital turns its Christmas lights on with more than 230 sites illuminated amidst an energy crisis in Madrid, Spain. (REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura)
