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 ...

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 ...

It’s the first night of Arctic Pride, and, according to the map, the welcome party should be right here. I’d expected some ...

Finland. 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 ...

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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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 ...

This northern region in Finland is often thought of as a winter wonderland — particularly the Finnish town of Rovaniemi, the official hometown of Santa Claus. But Lapland is ... black-sand beach near ...