If you’re traveling to Sonoma’s Sister City of Penglai (China), you might consider booking your travel to include a walk through Terminal 2 of airport. Why? Because Terminal 2 has been included in the winner’s list of the 2025 Prix Versailles World’s Most Beautiful Airports.
The Prix Versailles is a series of juried awards focusing […]
Excerpt from the “Off the Grid” feature in the January/February 2025 issue of Archeology magazine features some historical and current information about our Sister City Patzcuaro (Mexico):
“WHILE YOU’RE THERE
Housed in an eighteenth-century mansion, the State Museum of Michoacán in the capital city of Morelia has a number of Purépecha artifacts on display. The site of […]
Earlier this year, Sonoma’s Sister City Kaniv (Ukraine) received a much-needed back-up generator through a grant from USAID worth $1million (US). This outcome was the result of persistent communication and coordination between the Kaniv City Council, Anatoly Leontyev, (President of the Kaniv Friendship Association), and many others, including SSCA Board member Andrew Sorokowski. This project […]
Perhaps you are going to Italy this year and have been wondering how to visit Greve-in-Chianti, our sister city since 1983…
Maria Matson, the Sonoma-Greve Committee Facebook page editor and longtime SSCA supporter, has put together a quick guide for travel by car or bus. Access it here, and happy travels.
Bastille Day is Monday/14 July 2025 and the Valley of the Moon Petanque Club will be hosting a small tournament in Depot Park to celebrate. If you are interested in playing, please arrive before 10:00am to sign up.
Bastille Day commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris in 1789 by revolutionaries; this would become […]
Although the Sonoma-Aswan Sister City Committee is no longer active at this time, we still enjoy posting news concerning Aswan in the areas of history, education, and the arts. The January/February of Archeology Today reported on just such a find: a 10-level necropolis containing more than 400 tombs constructed and used during the Greco-Roman period […]
The SSCA Holiday Party returns on Saturday, December 6th. Our event will be at Burlingame Hall this year from 4-6pm.
Our theme for 2025 will be “Jingle and Mingle Around the World”. We hope you will mark your calendar and plan to attend this fun event to kick off the holiday season.
Stay tuned for more information […]
On 14 December 1959, the City of Sonoma and the City of Chambolle-Musigny (France) became the first in what would be a robust line of Sister City relationships.
On 14 December 2024, Sonoma Mayor John Gurney issued a Proclamation paying tribute to the beginning of the Sister City connection. Here’s looking back and looking forward to […]
On April 2, 2025, Mayor Patricia Farrar-Rivas issued an official proclamation recognizing SSCA on the occasion of the organization’s 65th anniversary, which occurred on December 24th, 1959, when the first sister-city relationship for Sonoma was formed with Chambolle-Musigny of France. SSCA is grateful and very much appreciative of this honor.
Sonoma artist, athlete, and Sonoma-Kaniv Sister City Committee Chair Kaeti Bailie will be showing a new collection of her photographs and paintings from Thursday, June 5th through Sunday June 8th in Sonoma. You can see her work at the Alley Gallery in La Haye Art Center located at 148 East Napa, just off Sonoma Square. […]
