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Thinking about the "sister city" thing following a radio piece, and about how it seems pretty meaningless in many cases.
I had no idea where Ottawa's sister city is. It never seems to be mentioned nor celebrated here. Turns out we have two – Beijing and Catania.
Presumably it's supposed to foster trade and tourism relationships, but I suspect beyond an initial announcement, it usually fades into obscurity.
Does your city celebrate and build on a sister city relationship?
Ross of Ottawa
in reply to Ross of Ottawa • • •Afraid to say I didn't know if the city of Catania at all - apparently it's the second largest city in Sicily, at the foot of My Etna.
I can see why we were paired, probably our mutual volcano threat experiences. 😂
I imagine it's rather warm there today!
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in reply to Oblomov • • •@oblomov Oh! Didn't know you were a sister-citizen.
We'll have to urge the cities send delegations to renew the connection. :)
Oblomov
in reply to Ross of Ottawa • • •fun fact, I was looking at the list of our “gemellaggi” (the gemellaggio, twinning literally, is how we call in italian the relationship of being sister cities)
it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catania
and Ottowa is there, but not Beijing, so I'm guessing being a sister city is not a transitive relationship 8-D
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in reply to Oblomov • • •Ross of Ottawa
in reply to Ross of Ottawa • • •Oh! Catania gets around – lots of sister relationships there. We're not the only feather in their cap…
Giuseppe Bilotta
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in reply to Ross of Ottawa • • •I didn't know anything of this! Who knows where this pairing comes from?
Anyway, in this moment there are 32 degrees. It's not that bad compared to the north of Italy, which is unusual. I don't complain that much😅
Chris Geoghooligan ✊
in reply to Ross of Ottawa • • •ours apparently are Dundee, Scotland & Helsingborg, Sweden! I never knew!
Also, there’s a good episode of Parks & Rec (season 1 or 2) where officials from Pawnee’s sister city in Venezuela come to visit and are appalled at how awful Pawnee is. It’s pretty good.
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in reply to Ross of Ottawa • • •My city of Alexandria, Virginia, surprisingly is not paired with Alexandria, Egypt, but is paired with Dundee, Scotland — I think because that's where Alexandria's founder was from?
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in reply to Ross of Ottawa • • •Yes. Very much.
We do also have 2;
Agen in France and Arad in Israel.
I think, mostly the idea is to select a sister city which has either the same structure/techtourism or the same swag/codes/codices. Or both.
The structure of Arad in Israel is similar cause both are somehow industrial cities be it by coal or salt mining here …
Industrial Cities like these have a large amount of multi-nationality and until the escalation I have visited it several times. Our guest families were jews or palastinians. Or none of those.
It simply did not matter in a sister city relationship!
Ross of Ottawa
in reply to Sebastian Lasse • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Ross of Ottawa • •@Ross of Ottawa here (northern Italy) they are pretty common and often written on the signs at the entrance of municipalities
afaik most of the times it's just a few delegates from each place going to visit the other place for a meal every year or so
and we have also a funny case of two sister villages that are a 50 km drive from each other, in the same province (Schignano and Cermenate), which. just. why???
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in reply to Ross of Ottawa • •@Ross of Ottawa I don't think they could be home for lunch.
this is Italy
the trade and tourism delegations can wake up at a comfortable time in the morning, meet for lunch¹, and then all move together to the other village for dinner² :D
¹ midday meal
² evening meal
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