enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Rovaniemi - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rovaniemi

    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.

  3. Santa Claus Village - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_Village

    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 ...

  4. Rovaniemi Airport - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rovaniemi_Airport

    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.

  5. Lordi's Square - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordi's_Square

    Lordi's Square (Finnish: Lordin aukio, known as the Sampo Square until 2006) is a square in central Rovaniemi, Finland. Next to the square are located a shopping centre called Sampokeskus and a small boulevard. The square is especially popular in summer as a venue for various events.

  6. Rovaniemi railway station - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rovaniemi_railway_station

    Rovaniemi railway station is located in Rovaniemi, Finland. The line from the south opened in 1909, and was extended to Kemijärvi in 1934. It features direct daytime and overnight passenger trains to Oulu , Tampere , Helsinki and Turku ; as of March 2014 the overnight train provided the only passenger service north to Kemijärvi.

  7. Pilke House - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilke_House

    The building is a wooden beam-column structure, an example of ecological wood construction and Finnish architecture. [7] The carbon dioxide emissions of the wooden Pilke House are about one third of those of a steel or concrete building of the same size. [8]

  8. Rovaniemi German Military Cemetery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rovaniemi_German_Military...

    The German Military Cemetery (Finnish: Saksalaisten sotilaiden hautausmaa, German: Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof) of Rovaniemi is located on lake Norvajärvi, in Finnish Lapland. [1] It is the final resting place of 2,530 German soldiers who died in the Finnish regions of Lapland and Oulu during World War II.

  9. Villa del Balbianello - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_del_Balbianello

    The Villa del Balbianello is a villa in the comune of Lenno (province of Como), a province in the north of the Lombardy region of Italy, overlooking Lake Como. It is located on the tip of the small wooded peninsula of Dosso d'Avedo on the western shore of the south-west branch of Lake Como, 1500 meters east from the Isola Comacina. The villa is ...