Usually, St Patrick's Day means parades, wearing green, singing, dancing, and pints.
However, the people of Ireland won’t be taking to the streets in celebration this year due to COVID-19 restrictions.
The festival has been moved online bringing all the colour, culture, and pageantry into homes around the world.
And many iconic landmarks are giving Ireland the green light for the celebration.
Around 670 sites in 66 different countries are set to take part in 2021 - from Rome to Rio, and London to Las Vegas, a host of famous buildings and sites will be turning glas over the coming days.
2021 is set to be the biggest ever Global Greening with other famous sites to include Niagara Falls, the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro and the Prince’s Palace of Monaco.
Niall Gibbons, CEO of Tourism Ireland, said: “This is the 12th year of Tourism Ireland’s Global Greening initiative and it’s bigger and better than ever this year, with some wonderful (and unusual!) new additions like the Tilted Sauna in Finland and a giant troll sculpture in Denmark!
“Although St Patrick’s Day will be very different this year, Tourism Ireland aims to capitalise on the heightened exposure for the island of Ireland around the globe on 17 March, to ensure that Ireland remains ‘top of mind’ as a great holiday destination for bookings when the time is right.”
Every year, the sites and buildings get quirkier and more spectacular, and 2021 will be no different, the ‘Greenings’ include:
The Tilted Sauna in Finland - also known as the ‘Drunken Sauna’, an abandoned sauna tilted on its side on Tampaja Lake.
SkyWheel Helsinki - a unique sauna cabin where you can see the city sights.
Jääsauna 52 – the first ever ice sauna in Tampere, Finland; the sauna’s 50-cm thick walls are made from the frozen water of local lakes and never melt, as the intense cold refreezes everything after use.
The Sekenani Gate – the main gate to the Maasai Mara National Reserve, in Kenya.
A giant Kissing Couple XXXL statue located along the bicycle route between Amsterdam and Zaandam; both reaching over 8 metres.
A huge Smurf Statue in central Brussels.
A solar giraffe – will be green in Mozambique.
‘Mac the Moose’ at 32 feet tall in the city of Moose Jaw, in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Perlan in Reykjavík – a futuristic, revolving glass-domed restaurant on the top of Öskjuhlíð hill in Iceland.
The Big Fiddle of the Ceilidh – the world’s largest fiddle, on Cape Breton Island in Canada.
Le Dragon de Calais – a dragon machine in Calais, in northern France, that can breathe fire, water and diffuse mist; it weighs 72 tonnes, is 25 metres long and 15 metres high.
Tourism Ireland’s annual Global Greening initiative has gone from strength to strength since it began in 2010, when just the Sydney Opera House and the Sky Tower in Auckland went green.
Click through our gallery above to see some of the spectacular displays.
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