City twinning sounds like paperwork until you look at what actually happens between certain American and Italian cities: far from being random handshake agreements where two mayors smile for a photo and never speak again, the pairings are often built on identity, memory, industry, or even shared personality.
We’ve talked before about Seattle and Perugia and Assisi and San Francisco, but those stories are just one piece of a larger pattern, and the more you look at these sister cities, the more it feels like a map of how Italy and the United States see each other.
