How do “sister cities” find each other and agree to be sisters?
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My city, Kansas City, MO, has an upscale shopping/dining area called the Country Club Plaza. It was built in the 1920s. It’s designed with a lot of Moorish Spanish architecture, including a half-scale version of [La Giralda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giralda), from Seville, Spain.
So now Seville is a sister city of Kansas City. Later, Seville was given a replica of a famous (well, famous here, anyway) statue in Kansas City, [The Scout](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KC_Scout.jpg). Appropriately placed in Seville on a street named, “Avenida de Kansas City.”
In the end, is that a strong enough connection to be Sister Cities? What’s essentially an open-air mall has a mini replica of some tower in another city in another country? I guess.
We don’t really have any further cultural ties to Seville or Spain as a whole. Like many cities in the US Midwest, we have more historical connections to France through then New France via their early explorers and fur trappers and such. I’m not even sure the average KC resident knows about the Seville-connection of our Giralda replica, even though it’s one of the icons of our city, like The Scout (yes, a tower in a mall is an icon).
So yeah, that’s one example of how it works.
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