But these colourful revellers celebrating the winter solstice have not come to decorate a tree, but to burn one. After dragging a tree trunk by rope through the streets of the Baltic capital, the wild ...

Christmas trees are widely associated with the Christian holiday, but their origins are far from the Christ-worshipping standards they represent today. Evergreens, plants that stay green year-round, ...

RIGA, Latvia — Dressed in pagan folk costumes, Latvians gather on a square in the centre of Riga for a ceremony that some historians see as the ancient precursor to the Christmas tree tradition. But ...