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

A few months later, in June 1985, Santa Claus Village opened 5 miles north of downtown Rovaniemi. It started out modestly — just one old log cabin and a few souvenir shops. Business began to ...

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Before the Tromsø location opened in 2024, the world's northernmost McDonald's was in Rovaniemi, a city along the Arctic Circle in Finland that hosts the Santa Claus Village. Upon its opening in 1997, ...

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The small Finnish city of Rovaniemi has branded itself as “the Official Hometown of Santa Claus,” with a tourist ... Auvers-sur-Oise, a village near Paris, is where Vincent Van Gogh spent ...

Rovaniemi markets itself as the ‘Official Home of Santa Claus’ and contains a Santa Claus Village and Santa Park. The northern lights are visible here on “around 150 nights a year” from ...

Some of his neighbors are not thrilled. Rovaniemi’s Santa Claus Village and the booming tourist industry around it was covered in an article by The New York Times on April 15. The article explores the ...