There are lots of Christmas and New Year traditions in Britain. For example... London's Christmas decorations. Every year the people of Norway give the city of London present… It's a big Christmas tree and it stands in Trafalgar Square...

Northern Italy Lombardy is synonymous with Panettone and Panettone is synonymous with Christmas, not only in Italy, but throughout the world. Legend has it that this cake was born by chance, without the search for an elaborate recipe or special ingredients; it seems that a baker's assistant, to make the bread more substantial given the winter cold and the scarcity of food, decided to enrich it by adding eggs, butter and candied fruit, thus giving the world a cake that over the centuries will become one of the most popular symbols of the holidays...