Coventry - Twin Cities

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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