Official hometown of Santa Claus - Sarada's travelogue
Roveinami and the Santa claus village - here is the info Rovaniemi is the official hometown of Santa Claus, whose most famous resident can be found every day of the year at Santa Claus Village in the Arctic Circle, where more than 500,000 Christmas friends from every corner of the world visit each year. As the location of Korvatunturi, Santa's original domicile, is a precisely guarded secret, h e decided to set up his own base to accommodate all the visitors, Rovaniemi and the Arctic Circle in 1985. Rovaniemi received Santa's official hometown status in 2010 . Santa Claus Village: how it all started Rovaniemi was almost completely destroyed during World War II. In 1950, Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of then US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, visited Rovaniemi to see how reconstruction is progressing. He wanted to visit the Arctic Circle, eight kilometers north of the center, where the Rovaniemi authorities rushed to build a cottage for a guest of honor. The cott...