Commemorating the sister ports relationship between Sydney Ports Corporation and Yokkaichi Port Authority, Japan.Sister City relationships are fairly popular around the world. Apparently they were begun by the Eisenhower administration in the US in 1952.
Sydney City Council has sister city relationships with San Francisco (1968); Nagoya, Japan (1982); Welllington, New Zealand (1982); Portsmouth, UK (1984); Guangzhou, China (1985) and Florence, Italy (1986).
Local government areas also have sister cities. Where I live, we are sisters with Takeo, Cambodia; Tanggu, China; Bitola, Macedonia; Glyfada, Greece; Rockdale, Texas, USA; Bint Jbail, Lebanon; Yamatsuri, Japan and Gilgandra, a country town in NSW. I don't know that these relationships confer any special benefits other than a warm inner glow and trips for local dignitaries!
Do you know of any Sister City relationships your city has?
Beautiful photo, Sally. I had no idea about Boston's sister cities so I googled and this is what I found:
ReplyDeleteBarcelona, Cataluna, Spain
Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province (China)
Kyoto, Japan
Melbourne, Australia
Padua, Veneto, Italy
Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
Strasbourg, Alsace, France
Taipei Municipality, Taiwan
Thanks to your neat topic I learned something very interesting today. :)
Take care.
Forgot to include the link to the Sister Cities directory.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link fenix. It's interesting, but incomplete. It only lists San Francisco for Sydney, but there are many more.
ReplyDeleteI found out mine by goign to the websites of the local councils in question (Sydney, and my local council, Rockdale).
Sally.
Just two days out, and look what I was missing: wonderful pictures as always!
ReplyDeleteLisbon sister cities, according to Wiki:
Akhisar, Turkey
Athens, Greece
Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
Brasilia, Brazil
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Budapest, Hungary
Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Luanda, Angola
Macau, People's Republic of China
Madrid, Spain
Malacca, Malaysia
Maputo, Mozambique
Montreal , Canada
Nicosia, Cyprus
Paris, France
Praia, Cape Verde
Rabat, Morocco
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
São Paulo, Brazil
São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe
Zagreb, Croatia
None from Provence, still my subject at Blogtrotter!
Hi, Sally. I wouldn't expect to see a torii gate in Sydney any more that I would here in St. Louis. Although, come to think of it, there may be one in our Japanese garden. Odd that yours isn't red-orange, like they are usually.
ReplyDeleteWe have a long list of sister cities, but not as many as Lisbon. The list includes:
Bologna, Italy
Galway, Ireland
Bogor, Indonesia
Lyon, France
Nanjing, China
Saint-Louis, Senegal
Samara, Russia
Stuttgart, Germany
Suwa, Japan
Szczecin, Poland
Suwa, Japan
Yokneam Illit, Israel
The only one of these I have visited is Galway. Never heard of several of them. Lots of world to see.
I think it's really strange that Lisbon is paired with Jersey City. They couldn't be more different - I'd take Lisbon every time, except that Jersey City has killer views of lower Manhattan across the Hudson River.
Surprenante cette sculpture en hommage aux villes jumelées. J'avais fait un post sur les villes jumelées d'Evry
ReplyDeleteSurprising this sculpture in homage to the twin towns. I had made a post on the twin towns of Evry
Mes Posts on the twin twons
We don't have sister cities here, but where I live is twinned with Guterslough in Germany. I don't personally get anything out of it, but the local councilors get free trips there & local schools go on visits. A lot of towns across england are twinned with other European towns.
ReplyDeleteI like your photograph. I guess I have not seen a Tori made from stainless steel before. What is the significance of the numbers at the bottom?
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Brookville Daily Photo
My Website
Abe, it shows the latitude and longitude of the two ports. You can see a full view of the monumnet here:
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I think NYC has many sister cities. Tokyo might be one of them. Will look it up.
ReplyDeletei hope manila and sydney will be sister city too. anyway thats a very nicve view...
ReplyDeleteNo sister cities with Joensuu, but Kuopio, near Joensuu, has one sister city and it is Minneapolis in Minnesota.
ReplyDeleteQuite new thing to me!!
Fine to know also this :)
Have a great time, Sally!
Usual interesting questions Sally. Torino has below sister cities relationship:
ReplyDeleteBacau - Romania
Córdoba - Argentina
Liegi - Belgium
Campo Grande - Brasil
Chambéry - France
Colonia - Germany
Lille - France
Volgograd - Russia
Rotterdam - Netherland
Detroit - USA
Gaza - Palestina
Haifa - Israel (still ti definte)
Nagoya - Japan
Quetzaltenango - Guatemala
Shenyang - China
Salt Lake City - USA
Glasgow - Scotland
Esch-sur-Alzette - Luxembourg
So, fabrizio, seeing as both Sydney and Torino are sisters of Nagoya, does that make us sisters-in-law, or sisters once removed, or step-sisters or half sisters???
ReplyDeleteits a great idea, we have a sister city too, can't recall which one, which is very slack of me
ReplyDeleteFrench towns and even villages are very big on sistership - almost all have sistership places somewhere in Europe.
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