Several years ago when we vacationed in Italy we visited a town about the size of our town in America, with a similar name to ours, and with a city hall that had the same Italianate windows and architecture as the courthouse in the center of our town (Italy had the style first, of course). The town was on a hill like ours, and their town church looks very much like our town's Catholic church.
When I got home I had our mayor write their mayor, mentioning and showing photos of all our similarities with them, and asking them to be our "twin city". I followed up with letters to their chamber of commerce and tourism bureau.
Never got a word of reply. But it was fun dreaming of visitor exchanges for a while!