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unusual facts about sister cities



Chinese Cultural Garden

Features include an ornamental Friendship Gate, the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, the Chiang Kai-shek Pavilion, a large statue of Confucius, the Plum Pavilion, a sundial, and a carved, 15 ton black marble stone, mined and shipped from the Republic of China (Taiwan), donated by Tainan, one of San Jose's sister cities.

Honeoye Falls, New York

Honeoye Falls is currently in the process of developing a "sister cities" relationship with Borgne, Haiti.

Karen Hasara

Mayor Hasara was also greatly involved in Sister Cities International, and under her leadership, Springfield gained two additional sister cities (in Mexico and Ireland).

Royal High School, Edinburgh

The Royal High School has international relationships through regular musical exchanges with sister cities on the Continent such as Florence (from 1975) and Munich (from 1979), and with other schools such as the Theodolinden-Gymnasium, Munich (from 1979), the Lycée Antoine-de-Saint Exupéry, Lyon (from 1991), and the Scuola di Musica ‘Giuseppe Verdi’, Prato (from 1993).

Vila do Bispo Municipality

In honour of the first claimant to land in Japan, and owing to recognition of twinning with Nishinoomote on the island of Tanegashima, the main square in Vila do Bispo was renamed Praça de Tanegashima.


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Broxeele

Broxeele and Brussels are sister cities and the city of Brussels has given a replica of Manneken Pis to Broxeele.

Common Wall Media

Featuring: Dear and the Headlights, Poem, Sister Cities, The Foxglove Hunt, Black Carl, XRayOK, Nate Stone, Neba, Dorsey, The Go Reflex, Juicy Newt, Tugboat, JD Stooks, Sugar High, The Breadwinners, The Break-Up Society, Life in Stereo, Hour of the Wolf, Heist at Hand, Art for Starters.

Donal Lyons

He represented Galway at the International Conference of Sister Cities at Aalborg, and addressed the Massachusetts State Senate at the invitation of Jack Yunits and Tom Birmingham.

Fujioka, Gunma

Fujioka has sister cities in Hakui (Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan), Regina (Canada), Jiang Yin (China) and Bend (Oregon, United States).

Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

The FLDS Church is estimated to have 6,000 - 10,000 members residing in the sister cities of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona; Eldorado, Texas; Westcliffe, Colorado; Mancos, Colorado; Creston and Bountiful, British Columbia; and Pringle, South Dakota.

Greenbelt Historic District

With its sister cities of Greenhills, Ohio and Greendale, Wisconsin, Greenbelt was intended to be a "new town" that would start with a clean slate to do away with problems of urbanism in favor of a suburban ideal.

The Global Voices Program

Crewdson was awarded a British American Arts Administrative Training Institute Fellowship, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, and was the official U.S. representative at Tashkent's First International Theater Festival in Uzbekistan, and has represented the Chicago Artists International Program in Egypt and Turkey, and addressed the United States Sister Cities International delegation in Casablanca Morocco, at the 50th Anniversary celebration of its founding.

Waterloo, Illinois

This partnership, which goes by the portmanteau Portaloo, has since assised other communities in the area to establish Sister Cities programs of their own, including Columbia/Gedern, Belleville/Paderborn, and Millstadt/Groß-Bieberau.