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unusual facts about town twinning



Crespano del Grappa

On September 29, 2000 the city of Folsom, Folsom, California in the USA and Crespano del Grappa, Italy signed the "Declaration of Friendship" at an official ceremony in Crespano del Grappa and entered into a Sister City relationship.

Finchley Central tube station

The main one, leading directly to the ticket hall, is from an access road on the north side of the tracks which for many years lacked a name, but on 13 November 2006 was named Chaville Way after one of Barnet's twin towns.

Halver

The town twinning with the Swedish city Katrineholm originated from the connection between a music group from Halver and a traditional dancing group from Katrineholm.

Hubert Deutsch

The River Danube was the border between the American and Sovietic zones, with Linz in the American zone and its sister town, Urfahr, in the Sovietic one.

La Wantzenau

The town is twinned with Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche in Haute-Vienne because the population of La Wantzenau was evacuated there at the start of the war with Germany in 1939.

Neyagawa, Osaka

Neyagawa entered a Sister City relationship with Newport News, Virginia (US), in 1982, and with Oakville, Ontario (Canada), in 1984, where a boulevard is named after the city.

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).

Thomas Logie MacDonald

The Carlisle/Flensburg (Germany) town twinning relationship was established during his mayoral term.

Xuchang

On 18 December 2006, the Oromia Region government in Ethiopia signed an agreement with Henan Province to establish a sister city program with Ambo.


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