Tourists having their picture taken with one of the Santas at Santa Claus Village ... Rovaniemi, Finland, in February.Credit... Supported by By Jeffrey Gettleman Photographs by Jim Huylebroek In ...

Taxpayer-funded and located at the Santa Claus Village tourist destination near the city of Rovaniemi in Finland’s Lapland region, the magical mail drop is staffed by a crew of full-time ...

Rovaniemi might be known as the official home town of Santa Claus, the capital of Lapland being situated right on the Arctic Circle. The Finnish town may soon become known for more than Northern ...

Shuffling across icy ground on a cold December afternoon, lots of tourist groups poured into Santa Claus Village ... in the capital of Finnish Lapland, Rovaniemi, which happily calls itself ...

From Rovaniemi’s Santa Claus Village to the warm aura ... the Arctic Circle this Christmas season. Lapland crosses the utmost northern borders of Finland, Norway and Sweden’s dense forests ...

ROVANIEMI, Finland — After dinner at the Bull Bar ... A few months later, in June 1985, Santa Claus Village opened 5 miles north of downtown Rovaniemi. It started out modestly — just one ...