Rovaniemi travel guide

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   Santa Claus Village

   A theme park at Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland, opened in 1980. It sits on the Arctic Circle, which is marked across the ground through the middle of it.

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   Santa Park

   A Christmas theme park at Rovaniemi, opened on 28 November 1998 in caverns cut into the rock beneath the Arctic Circle.

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   Arktikum Science Museum

   A museum and Arctic research centre in Rovaniemi, opened in 1992, whose glass tube points north over the river. Its exhibits cover the science of the Arctic and the Sámi people who live in it.

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   Lordi's Square

   A square in central Rovaniemi in Finland. It was called Sampo Square until 2006; the Sampo shopping centre and a small avenue adjoin it, and it fills with events in summer.

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   Rovaniemi Church

   A church of 850 seats in central Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland. Bertel Liljequist designed it and it was completed in 1950; the earlier church of 1817 was burned by German troops on 16 October 1944 during the Lapland War.

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   Rovaniemi Art Museum

   An art museum in Rovaniemi occupying a converted post-bus depot, one of the few buildings in the town to survive 1944. It shows contemporary Finnish art and northern art in particular.

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   Regional Museum of Lapland

   A museum in the Arktikum building in central Rovaniemi, Finland, devoted to the nature of Lapland and the everyday life of its people.

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   Rovaniemi Norvajärvi German military cemetery

   A German military cemetery on the shore of Lake Norvajärvi at Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland. It holds 2,530 German soldiers who died in Lapland and around Oulu in the Second World War; it opened on 31 August 1963, and a bronze Pietà stands inside the red granite mausoleum.

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   Forestry Museum of Lapland

   A museum at Pöykkölä in Rovaniemi, Finland, on the shore of Lake Salmijärvi, devoted to the old forestry of Lapland — logging and floating timber downriver.

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    Rovaniemi Local Heritage Museum

    A local heritage museum at Pöykkölä in Rovaniemi, Finland, on the bank of the Kemijoki. Founded in 1957, it shows how people here once lived.

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   Pilke House

   An office building and science centre in Rovaniemi in Finland, built in 2011 and known for its timber construction and low carbon footprint. Its subject is the forest and how Finland uses it.

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