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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—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
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With conquering limbs astride from land to land,
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Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
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Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.”
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