Sister Cities
Baltimore has eleven sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International:
- Alexandria, Egypt (1995)
- Ashkelon, Israel (2005)
- Bremerhaven, Germany (2007)
- Gbarnga, Liberia (1973)
- Genoa, Italy (1985)
- Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan (1978)
- Luxor, Egypt (1982)
- Odessa, Ukraine (1974)
- Piraeus, Greece (1982)
- Rotterdam, Netherlands (1985)
- Xiamen, China (1985)
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Famous quotes containing the words sister and/or cities:
“It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)