Santa Claus Village Santa Claus Village Santa Claus Village is an amusement park in Rovaniemi in the Lapland region of Finland. It was opened in 1985. Santa Claus Village is located about northeast of Rovaniemi and about from the Rovaniemi Airport. The first original home of Santa Claus was Korvatunturi, which remained mysterious. In 1985, Rovaniemi was declared as an official hometown of Santa Claus. The Santa Claus Park that is connected to the Santa Claus Village was in 2007 awarded by Topworld International and placed as the second best Travel Adventure in Finland. So long in 2008, it still holds second position
A Kidnapped Santa Claus since. In 1989 the story was adapted into a musical play for children, "Santa Claus is Missing!", by Sylvia Ashby, with songs by Scott Taylor. Another adaptation exists in the form of the animated film "Who Stole Santa?" in the Oz Kids series (1996). In 2009, cartoonist Alex Robinson adapted the story into comic form in a book released by Harper Collins. More generally, the idea of kidnapping Santa Claus has been exploited by other artists in other works, as in Jean Van Leeuwen's book "The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper" (1975), Tim Burton's film "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993), and