Darmstadt is a town in the land of Hessen, Germany. For two centuries it has been a proving ground of modernity, taking full advantage of the Industrial Revolution, the arts, and more recently information technology. Since 1997 the ministry for Hessen has called it “Wissenschaftstadt Darmstadt”, (“Darmstadt, Town of Science”), but it was always a cultural and artistic centre.
It is twinned with 15 European towns, Alkmaar (Netherlands), Brescia (Italy), Bursa (Turkey), Chesterfield (United Kingdom), Freiberg (Germany), Graz (Austria), Liepaja (Latvia), Logroño (Spain), Plock (Poland), Saanen-Gstaad (Switzerland), Gyönk and Szeged (Hungary), Trondheim (Norway), Troyes (France) and Uzhgorod (Ukraine).
