Sister Cities
Roanoke has seven sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International:
- Florianópolis, Brazil
- Kisumu, Kenya
- Lijiang, Yunnan, China
- Pskov, Russia
- Saint-Lô, France
- Wonju, South Korea
- Opole, Poland
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Famous quotes containing the words sister and/or cities:
“of the satanic thistle that raises its horned symmetry
flowering above sister grass-daisies’ pink tiny
bloomlets angelic as lightbulbs—”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“What care though rival cities soar
Along the stormy coast,
Penn’s town, New York, Baltimore,
If Boston knew the most!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)