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Santa Claus ‘hometown’ suddenly overrun with tourists — and locals are protesting in the streets: ‘It’s not anymore in control’
Rovaniemi, the capital of Lapland and home to the Santa Claus Village theme park ... But locals in the town of 65,000 are not feeling the holiday cheer, where hordes have packed hotels and ...
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Santa Claus: A US town where it’s Christmas (almost) every day
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 ...
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The home of Santa Claus
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 ...
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As Arctic climate warms, even Santa runs short of snow
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 ...
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Sleighs, sleds, snowmobiles and Santa - a trip to Lapland is pure magic
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 ...