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Saariselkä (Northern Sami: Suoločielgi, Inari Sami: Suáluičielgi) is a village in Inari municipality, Lapland, Finland. It is located near the western end of the Saariselkä mountain ridge, which it also is named after.
Ministry of Trade and Industry was also involved. As an amusement park Santa Park did not reach its financial goals. Renewal of the concept was attempted in 2002 with a new ownership structure where the municipality of Rovaniemi was involved. The new concept featured Santa Claus, Christmas and Lapland's culture and nature. On 24 March 2009 ...
Saariselkä is partly in Urho Kekkonen National Park.The hill area is a popular tourist destination, providing activities such as skiing, hiking and spa. Saariselkä village is located in the area and belongs to the Inari municipality, about 300 meters (980 ft) above sea level.
Tourists have been flocking to Lapland to see Santa Claus and heavy snowfall, bolstering Finland's tourism industry that has been hit hard by the global health crisis.Tourists from Spain, Italy ...
In Finland, Korvatunturi in Lapland has long been known as Santa's home, and two theme parks, Santa Claus Village and Santa Park are located near Rovaniemi. In Belarus, there is a home of Ded Moroz in Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park. [68] In France, Santa is believed to reside in 1 Chemin des Nuages, Pôle Nord (1 Alley of Clouds, North Pole).
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Many years ago, in Lapland, a boy named Nikolas is orphaned when his family are killed in an accident.The heads of the families in the village meet to decide his future and, as life in the arctic is difficult, it is decided that as no one family could care for him permanently, they would raise him communally, with each family taking him for one year, starting on Christmas Day, and then moving ...
The 21 municipalities of the Lapland Region (Finnish: Lappi; Northern Sami: Sápmi; Swedish: Lappland) in Finland are divided on six sub-regions: Eastern Lapland sub-region [ edit ]