Twin Cities
Wakefield is twinned with several towns and cities including:
- Castres, France
- Hénin-Beaumont, France
- Herne, Germany
- Belgorod, Russia
- Konin, Poland
- Alfeld (Leine), Germany
- Castrop-Rauxel, Germany
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Famous quotes containing the words twin and/or cities:
“If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth if th’ other do.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)
“The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.”
—Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)