Santa Claus? Why is a small town in the midwest of America - more than 4,300 miles (6,920km) from Lapland - called Santa Claus? Maybe we should ask its chief elf. Pat Koch (pronounced ‘Cook ...

as trips to the world-famous, Santa Claus village located ... round and is the most underrated town to spend the holidays, offering a winter wonderland feel. Lapland: Home to Santa Claus and ...

Show more Rovaniemi, a small town in Lapland, is home to dozens of Christmas tourist attractions and is widely considered the unofficial home of Santa Claus. The town had to re-invent itself after ...

By this time of year, the town of Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland -- marketed by tourism officials since the 1980s as the "real" home of Santa Claus -- should be white and pretty. But on a recent ...

Not the reaction of a young child, but the first thought that came into my head when I stepped into the half-light of a Lapland Polar ... in with a ticket to see Santa. The rainy morning was ...