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The first building to be built in the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi was the Roosevelt Lodge, which was built in the 1950s for a visit by Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of the at that time US-President, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The first original home of Santa Claus was Korvatunturi, built as the "Finnish equivelant of Disneyland". In 1985, Rovaniemi ...
Rovaniemi Airport is the second-busiest airport in Finland after Helsinki airport. [4] Santa Claus Village and Santa Park are situated within 2–3 kilometres (1.2–1.9 mi). The airport is located approximately 8–9 kilometres (5.0–5.6 mi) away from Rovaniemi City centre, meaning that it is not far away from many restaurants and hotels.
Brian Cury, CEO and founder of EarthCam, Inc., launched EarthCam.com in 1996 to build a network of webcams offering views of destinations throughout the world. In 1999 it was claimed 20 people per day were adding their webcams to the website. [3] By 2006 the website was a Webby Award Winner in the Tourism category. [4]
Rovaniemi municipality has an approximate population of 66,000. The urban area of Rovaniemi has a population of 53,361, in an area of about 59 km 2 (23 sq mi). Rovaniemi is a monolingual Finnish-speaking municipality, and unusually for larger Finnish towns, it is also known by its Finnish name and spelling in the Swedish language.
Travel intelligence company OAG has released its annual list of the world’s busiest flight routes — and the 105-minute hop between the two has topped the international route board, with nearly ...
International Civil Aviation Organization. 17 September 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 March 2019 "IATA Airline and Airport Code Search". International Air Transport Association. "UN Location Codes: Finland". UN/LOCODE 2012-1. UNECE. 14 September 2012. – includes IATA codes "Airports in Finland". Great Circle Mapper.
In new satellite imagery, Russia's military appears to be packing up equipment at a key airbase in Syria. The images show transport aircraft ready to load cargo at the Hmeimim Air Base on Friday.
SantaPark can be reached by car along the national highway 4. It is located about 9 km northeast of Rovaniemi and about 2 km from Rovaniemi Airport. Frequent flights from Helsinki and other cities to Rovaniemi are offered throughout the year. The majority of international tourists switch their plane at Helsinki-Vantaa airport.