Rovaniemi Shopping

It's the citys center spot. In here and around Sampokeskus you'll find all of the small stores worth visiting in Rovaniemi (apart from Santa's Village). You might also want to walk through Rovakatu (=Rovastreet). If you want to buy something special from Rovaniemi try to look for the small shops in the centre there you can make some discoveries. However Rovaniemi is not much of a shoppers paradise.

What to pay: If you're looking for souvenirs take a lot of dough with ya!

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The company Birasi OU offers you a sweaters, cardigans, jackets, scarves, sokes and coats of any sizes from S to XXL. In the set with sweaters and cardigans we manufacture caps and scarfs.
Wide choice of colours and bright hues for children, more subdued tones for adult.

The Marttiini store in Lapland is a great place and opportunity to buy one of the famous Marttiini®-Steel blade knives. They are made in a traditional Lappish way and the local young lady in the store will even explain to you the different and it will help you to find the right one that is useful according to your needs.

What to buy: Marttiini® Knive

What to pay: 20.- € and up.

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If you want to spend some time going in the markets i suggest the one available every day in the central plaza, lot of small markets are available to buy nice souvenirs, reindeer skin, suomi stuffs, etc...

Naturally Santa thinks Christmas is the best time of the year, because that’s when he sets off round the world with his sleigh full of presents. But Christmas comes but once a year, and sometimes it may seem an awfully long time to Christmas. Not to worry, however, because you can now enjoy instant Christmas at any time of the year and buy your Christmas presents at the tower shop in Santa’s Office.

Saws a-swishing, hammers a-clattering, wood shavings flying and squealing drills: busy Christmas music direct from Santa’s secret workshop.

What to buy: Santa on the Picture is dressed in real fur from reindeer.

The Santa Claus office complex has many shops and tourist facilities. There is even a post office. The shopping arcade has many art and craft shops and is well worth a visit.

What to buy: Ceramics and Photographic work is excellent.

What to pay: Depends on your wallet!

Rovaniemi is not a big shopping place. There are two shopping malls, very small concidered in international level... Sampokeskus is the bigger one of these two shopping centres (the other one, Kalotinlinna is just across the Sampo-square, near Sampokeskus). In Sampokeskus there are 56 shops: clothes, cosmetics, a sauna shop, candy stores etc... there are also two cafés (Arnold's Donuts and an other cafe, and one hamburger restaurant Hesburger. Sampokeskus is actually the main place where people go when they say there "going shopping". People usually start from Sampokeskus, or Samppari as the locals call it, and then go to the nearby shops and stores. If you wanna see people, this is the place to go.

What to buy: All I would buy in Finland (in general) would be the souvenirs... Also warm clothes are easy to find in autumn, winter and sometimes even in spring time..!

What to pay: Well the souvenirs are expensive... if you don't want to buy souvenirs "made in China" :P I recomment to check what you're buying if you want to buy Finnish souvenirs..!