Charlottesville has three official Sister Cities with two others with a less-than-formal status and later this month there will be an official visit from one of them next week.
“The delegation from Besançon, our Sister City in France, will be arriving in Charlottesville on Friday, April 12 and will stay through Wednesday, April 17,” said Charlottesville Mayor Lloyd Snook. “It’s the first official municipal exchange between Besançon since 2018.”
Snook said the Sister City Commission will hold three public events during the trip.
“One is a concert Sunday afternoon from 4 to 6 p.m., April 14, Les Amitiés Musicales, at Grisham Hall Auditorium at St. Anne’s-Belfield on Ivy Road,” Snook said.
On Monday a new podcast called “Sister Revolutions” will launch that discusses the legacies of the American and French revolutions in the late 18th century. There will be a gathering at noon at Jefferson Hall on the University of Virginia Grounds.
The final event is a reception at 6 p.m. at the Create Gallery at InBio at the Silk Mills Building on Harris Street.
The other Sister Cities are Winneba, Ghana, and Poggio a Caiano, Italy. Pleven, Bulgaria is a Sister City Emeritus and Huehuetenango is a “Friendship City” that has not yet reached full status.
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