Each year, thousands of workers spend December preparing for the festival by cutting blocks of ice two to three feet thick from the Songhua River, which runs through Harbin. At last year's festival, 7,000 artists and sculptors worked to turn 1,937,500 square feet of ice and 1,614,590 square feet of snow into massive structures, including a replica of Rome's Colosseum made completely of ice, which has been a repeating favorite. This year, the festival's main attractions will be a 160-foot "fairy tower" made of ice and steel, a full-sized steam train made of ice and a massive ice castle.
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