Twin Towns
Maidenhead is twinned with:
- Saint-Cloud in France
- Bad Godesberg in Germany
- Frascati in Italy.
Each year youths from the four towns and Berlin Steglitz (twinned with Bad Godesberg) compete against one another in sports such as volleyball, football, athletics and swimming in the Twin Towns Sports Competition, hosted in turn by each of the five towns. In Maidenhead town centre there are roads named after each of the twin towns (Bad Godesberg Way, Frascati Way and St Clouds Way). Local schools often participate in student exchanges with pupils being exchanged between schools within the twinned towns. Windsor rifle club also competes biannually with their twin rifle club in Bad Godesberg.
In addition Windsor and Maidenhead are twinned with:
- Neuilly-sur-Seine in France
- Goslar in Germany
- Kortrijk in Belgium
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