You can still experience a touch of the old logging camp tradition in the Salla and Savukoski areas and villages. In north Lapland Saami is the most interesting living form of culture. They have also got a special kind of song called yoyk.

Cultural happenings - Lapland Festivals

Every month of the year there is some kind of cultural happening in Lapland. Musical events like jazz and opera to figure skating, sculpting and ice-sculpting, indoor- and outdoor theatre, cartoon and film festivals, gold panning…and everything related to the beautiful nature of Lapland. Gold
The gold rush was an enchanting addition to Lappish culture. This valuable metal was most intensively mined in the 1900’s and 1940’s. In many places in Lapland it is still a livelihood for some. The most famous place is Tankavaara Gold Village in Sodankylä with the history and today´s gold mining

City culture
In the four cities of the province; Kemi,Tornio,Kemijärvi and Rovaniemi you can feel the pulse of modern city culture. Encompassing services, hectic nightlife, theatres, art museums and many other propositions are to be found.

Handicrafts
In Lapland handicrafts presents a rare living cultural tradition. Craftsman’s working conditions can be quite modest and the work is based on traditional or modern techniques. Due to the climate, nature and sparse population the working methods and conditions differ greatly from other areas of Europe. Handicraft-workers and artists create a cache of cultural travel objectives, with a chance to see live working situations and see what northern cultural creators are made of. Most craftsmen will invite tourists in to see their working conditions and products, this way they too, become acquainted with the customer. Language
They have their own language whith many different dialects. Word order in sentences is free and it is written by latinic. Lappish is the language of the Lapps, or Laplanders. It is one of the Finno-Ugric languages, bearing certain similarities to Finnish, but the two languages are actually vastly different. Since the Lapps are of different racial stock than the Finns, it is assumed that about 2,000 years ago they adopted the language of the ancestors of the Finns. Subsequently many words were borrowed from the Scandinavian languages.

Religion and education
Today all Laplanders can visit school, where is the main language Lappish. In 1988 Norwegian Parlament pledged that Laplanders can keep their culture,language, lifestyle and traditions. In 1989 Lappish Parlament was constituted which was elected by Laplanders.