When searching for the historical beginning of the first Christmas tree, one must go very deep into the past. Just like Santa Claus, one finds that the first Christmas tree was combination of many different facts, legends and customs all starting in the Baltic countries and what is now Northern Germany. The first documented use of a tree in a Christmas celebration was in Riga, Latvia, in the year 1510 according to many sources. References to Martin Luther's Christmas Tree were actually two decades later than the Riga Tree. Visit Riga this Christmas and experience a medieval holiday celebration.

(PRWeb) December 13, 2006 -- Patricia Tourist Office recently hosted Santa Claus who paid a visit to check the preparations for this years holiday activities in Riga Latvia.

On November 8, 2006, Patricia Tourist Office was granted a European Union Community Mark: "Home of the First Christmas Tree" (tm)

As you can not trademark a city or a place, the recently granted European Union Trademark is the basis for a tourism project based on the legend of the First Christmas Tree which took place in medieval Riga, Latvia in the year 1510.

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