Town twinning in Europe

Origin and objectives of the town twinning in Europe

The town twinning took place in France for the first time. The main objective was to promote the bilingual education from childhood in order to facilitate peace and comprehension between countries. Overall, make understanding easy.

At the beginning town twinning between municipalities occurred basically with the aim of developing links of friendship between cities of European countries that participate in the Second World War.

Town twinning is a system that serves to develop links and friendship and cooperation links taking into account knowledge of each other, respect and tolerance.

Formal town twinning is carried out by writing an institutional declaration signed by the two or more countries involved in the town twinning process.

European associations

Santa Coloma de Gramenet is member of the association Consell Català del Moviment Europeu which deals with the European subject and it serves to share experiences between groups of the civil society that are used to work with European subjects.

Town Twinning within Europe


Kilmarnock (Scotland)	Huelma (Spain - Jaén)	Cogoleto (Italy)

Cabra (Spain - Còrdova)	Alès (France)

Model of protocol of town twinning

Friendship declaration and twin twinning protocol

According to the willing of the municipalities delegates, chosen democratically by the citizens and as a result of the visit that these delegates have done to the municipality of…………………..and the reciprocal visit that the municipality of…………………….will do to the municipality of…………………..

Once verified that these two town halls agree in the matter of formalizing a town twinning relationship.

Hereby we declare and inform you of our commitment of promoting and protecting our links of friendship, peace, respect and understanding between our communities and our countries, taking into account our common European identity and working to promote and facilitate the world solidarity and fostering the exchanges of development of the culture, society, sports and economy for the common good.

Signed by the mayor of……….

Cooperation and solidarity

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