Santa lives in Rovanimi, Finland. Some of his neighbors are not happy.

“Is this cheese in it?” He asked.

I saw more tourists in snow claims that are still in place by the treasurer. Before they can contact the eye, I got out of there.

She said, “I was thinking: Here we go again.”

This was a small hypothesis, but it was enough. If you are blond, so it can be recognized as a potential citizen for Rovaniemi, you can hardly move around a supermarket during the tourism season – this is all a mistake in Santa.

Santa birthplace

The simple marketing idea, which starts from the imagination of dear childhood, has made a small city on the edge of the Arctic Circle of the North Antarctic Circular for many people who live there. And not only tourists in the dairy corridor or fracture. It is also the loud Airbnbs, the escalating housing crisis, the very crowded sidewalks you cannot walk without colliding with people, and cars doors that collide in the middle of the night.

And everything started when the Nazis came to the city.

Early World War II, allied in Finland with the Nazis, who built a large base in Rovanimi, a center of the railway of Lapland. But by October 1944, the Nazis lost and the Soviet Red Army was walking to Eastern Europe. As a small souvenir of the Finns and the Russians, the declining German soldiers burned Rovanimi on the ground.

I left an empty fabric. So after the war, Finland Alvar Alto, the famous Finnish architect, requested to redesign the city. Alto, known as its bold churches, concert halls and kitchen stools, invented the idea: Why does the reinterpretation of the destroyed city in the form of a head of reindeer not, with the peripheral roads that are launched like pods of pods, to honor the relationship of the region with grazing grazing?