Twin Towns and Sister Cities
Glasgow is twinned with various cities.
- Nuremberg (Germany) (since 1985)
- Rostov-on-Don (Russia) (1986)
- Dalian (China) (1997)
- Havana (Cuba) (2002)
- Turin (Italy) (2003)
- Lahore (Pakistan) 2006
- Marseille (France) (2006)
- Bethlehem (West Bank) (2007)
Read more about this topic: Glasgow
Famous quotes containing the words twin, towns, sister and/or cities:
“That Dali is really Norman Rockwell’s twin brother kidnapped by gypsies in babyhood.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“New is a word for fools in towns who think
Style upon style in dress and thought at last
Must get somewhere.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“of the satanic thistle that raises its horned symmetry
flowering above sister grass-daisies’ pink tiny
bloomlets angelic as lightbulbs—”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)