Santa Claus, Ind. named on CNN’s Christmas List

CNN’s list of “15 of the best places to spend Christmas” includes the festive, famous small town of Santa Claus, Indiana.

“It is such an honor to be recognized by international media. This is the third year in a row to be included on CNN’s holiday lists and we are ecstatic about it,” says Spencer County Visitors Bureau Executive Director Melissa Brockman. “The Christmas season is a wonderful time of the year for families from near and far to visit and start or continue holiday traditions in America’s Christmas Hometown.”

Here is the list of CNN’s “15 of the best places to spend Christmas”:
•    Malta
•    New York
•    Bath, England
•    Barcelona, Spain
•    Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland
•    Nuremberg, Germany
•    Honolulu, Hawaii
•    Quebec City, Canada
•    Reykjavik, Iceland
•    San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
•    Salzburg, Austria
•    Santa Claus, Indiana
•    Strasbourg, France
•    Queenstown, New Zealand
•    Valkenburg, The Netherlands

America’s Christmas Hometown: Santa Claus, Indiana, hosts a celebration of family fun on the first three weekends of December. With two Christmas Celebration weekends remaining, visitors can enjoy events December 11-13 and 18-20, 2015. Special events include a Traditional Christmas Dinner with Santa at Santa’s Lodge, Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire at Santa’s Candy Castle, the Santa Claus Land of Lights at Lake Rudolph, the Festival of Lights inside Christmas Lake Village, and much more.