Twin Cities
Coventry first twinned with Volgograd, Russia. After World War II Coventry twinned with Dresden as an act of peace and reconciliation, both cities having been very heavily bombed during the war. Each twin city country is represented in a specific ward of the city and in each ward has a peace garden dedicated to that twin city.
Coventry is now twinned with 26 places across the world:
| City | Country | Year twinned | Ward |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkes, New South Wales | Australia | 1939 | Bablake |
| Graz | Austria | 1957 | Binley & Willenhall |
| Sarajevo | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1957 | Cheylesmore |
| Pernik | Bulgaria | 1990 | Canley |
| Cornwall, Ontario | Canada | 1972 | Earlsdon |
| Granby, Quebec | 1963 | ||
| Windsor, Ontario | 1963 | ||
| Jinan | China | 1983 | Foleshill |
| Lidice | Czech Republic | 1947 | Henley |
| Ostrava | 1959 | ||
| Caen | France | 1957 | Longford |
| Saint-Étienne | 1955 | ||
| Dresden | Germany | 1959 | Lower Stoke |
| Kiel | 1947 | ||
| Dunaújváros | Hungary | 1962 | Radford |
| Kecskemét | 1962 | ||
| Bologna | Italy | 1960 | Sherbourne |
| Kingston | Jamaica | 1962 | St Michael's |
| Arnhem | Netherlands | 1958 | Upper Stoke |
| Warsaw | Poland | 1957 | Wainbody |
| Cork | Ireland | 1958 | Holbrooks |
| Galați | Romania | 1962 | Westwood |
| Volgograd/Stalingrad | Russia | 1944 | Whoberley |
| Belgrade | Serbia | 1957 | Woodlands |
| Coventry, Connecticut | United States | 1962 | Wyken |
| Coventry, New York | 1972 | ||
| Coventry, Rhode Island | 1971 |
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Famous quotes containing the words twin and/or cities:
“That Dali is really Norman Rockwell’s twin brother kidnapped by gypsies in babyhood.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.”
—Edgar Quinet (1803–1875)