CHURCH: From candles to torches to thousands of fairy lights, Europe is getting its Christmas on. CNN's Lynda Kinkade checks out some of the dazzling holiday sights.</s>LYNDA KINKADE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: 'Tis the season to sparkle and the City of Light is doing it in style. The Champs Elysees in Paris is once again decked out in lights to kick off the holidays with 400 trees decorated with energy efficient bulbs.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is nice. It's the Christmas atmosphere in the city, a big city -- everything is bigger. It's great.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We do what we usually do. We open quite peacefully. And we do hope that nothing is going to have another than business as usual. It is the festive season and we put things behind us.</s>KINKADE: It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas right across Europe. London's Kew Gardens is lit up once more with over a million lights glistening along a nearly three kilometer trail. And the show stopping Christmas tree unveiled in Copenhagen adorned with 3,000 Swarovski ornaments.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It is literally lovely. The lights are amazing. I can stay here all day long and stare.</s>KINKADE: A crystal clear sign that holidays are underway. Lynda Kinkade, CNN.</s>CHURCH: Very pretty. And if you are looking for the perfect gift this holiday season, Vladimir Putin's 2020 calendar is out. And in the carefully selected photos, you can see the Russian president sitting with world leaders or walking strategically in front of U.S. President Donald Trump. It is quite a transformation from his past calendars which showed him shirtless, hiking, fishing and on horseback. The calendars have always been a way to showcase the Kremlin leader's carefully managed image. And thanks for watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rosemary Church. "WORLD SPORT" is next.
Seasonal Sparkle Lights Up Europe.