Meet Santa Claus at Lapland

According to the legends, Santa Claus is a Christmas personality who leads a virtuous life somewhere in the snow clad areas of the earth. He lives in Lapland in North Pole with his wife Mrs. Claus and engaged the whole year in making toys to be given away to the good children on the next Christmas. Traditionally Lapland in Finland is the location of Santa Claus and the place is slowly acquiring the status of a pilgrim tourism destination.

The place Rovaniemi in Lapland has been assigned with the title of ‘Santa Claus’s Homeland’. The Santa Claus office is located at Rovaniemi. The tradition says that Santa lives in this area with his wife the whole year, clad in his charismatic attire having red and white colours and riding his sleigh through the snow-capped fields of the North Pole.

The official website www.santaclausvillage.info is an entry to the different details of the modern Santa. Everything has been set in the Santa Claus office for all who visit him at the North Pole. The main post office of Santa Claus is another attraction in this place. The website www.posti.fi will give you the links to reach the Rovaniemi post office. As per an information available in the website, the post office of Santa land will be kept open all the days in the months of June, July, August and December from 9 am to 7 pm. During other months, the post office will function from 10 am to 5 pm daily.

The address by which you can send greetings and mails to the post office is

Santa Claus Main Post Office
Tahtikuja 1, FI-96930 Napapiiri
The telephone number is 020 4523 120 and Fax number is 016 3481 418. The Santa post office has an email id also, joulupukinpaaposti@posti.fi.

The official website of Santa Claus village is www.santaclausvillage.info. According to the website info, Santa Claus Office, Joulumaantie 1, FI-96930 Napapiiri is the office address of Santa Claus by which you can reach him. The phone number is 020 799 999 and the fax number is 016 362 007.

So, try to send your letters to Santa Claus today itself so that you can get memorable greetings and letters from him by the end of this year. About half a million people are visiting the Santa Claus office and other attractions in the Santa Claus village every year.

Close to Santa Claus office in Rovaniemi, there is a workshop of Santa Claus where he will be preparing the wooden toys. At the office, the visitors will be able to meet Santa Claus till noon time; because after that he has some other jobs to look after. Whatever be the legends and reality, let us enjoy the fun of Santa Claus at the Santa village in Rovaniemi.