1971 - Udine
Udine, geographically at the crossroads between several countries, has notably fostered a large number of exchanges. For centuries its market, and later its St Catherine’s day fair have won fame throughout the southern Alps, and its audience has been further amplified by schools, a theatre and academies making it the leading centre for dissemination of the Friuli region’s culture. Today the town relies most of all on young people to propagate the European idea by keeping up active twinning links with Albacete (Spain), Esslingen am Neckar (Germany), Neath Port Talbot (United Kingdom), Norrköping (Sweden), Schiedam (Netherlands), Vienne (France), Villach (Austria) and Yaoundé (Cameroon).