AFTER dinner at the Bull Bar and Grill in Rovaniemi, northern Finland, law student Mariel Tahtivaara popped into the local ...

Finland is known to the world for three things: snow-dered igloos, the Northern Lights, and being recognized as the happiest ...

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

Autumn in the far north of Scandinavia means crisp mornings, warm sunny days and a colourful fanfare of foliage. It’s the ...

The far north of Scandinavia is synonymous with Christmas – and minus 30 degree temperatures. Which makes visiting at a ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A man dressed as Santa Claus is facing time in prison after he allegedly hit a child with a branch at a Christmas market. The 62-year-old was handing out treats to children at a fair in Strausland, ...

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 ...