As Morski writes on the 28th of October, 2020, the Mayor of Porec, Loris Persuric, held a meeting via video link with the Mayor of the French city of Noisiel, Mathieu Viskovic, on the topic of cooperation and the conclusion of an Agreement on Cooperation and the Establishment of Friendly Relations between the two cities of Porec and Noisiel.
Noisiel is a city that belongs to the metropolitan area of Paris, in the department of Seine-et-Marne in the French region of Île-de-France and has a population of just over 15 thousand. It is part of the eastern Paris suburb and the Marne Valley, where Disneyland is located, as well as the Menier Chocolat chocolate factory (now the headquarters of Nestlé France SAS) in Noisiel itself. In addition to industrial development, Noisiel is at the same time a city that is inevitably connected to the development of the French capital Paris and its metropolitan area, and is excellently connected with it in terms of urban planning and traffic.
Back in 2000, the Ministry of Culture and Communications named Noisiel a city of art and history with a special focus on industrial heritage – more specifically the heritage of the industrial chocolate manufacturer Menier – whose 19th-century UNESCO-protected facilities are a modern heritage created by the Marne Valley and green a heritage made up of parks and planned horticulture throughout the city.
The mayor of Noisiel, Mathieu Viskovic, whose family has roots in Croatia and Istria, expressed satisfaction that there is an intention to create a special friendship between Porec and Noisiel.
As soon as the epidemiological situation allows for it, a delegation of the city of Noisiel will visit Porec, and then formalise the agreement that has already been initiated with the representatives of Porec.
Mayor Loris Persuric said that there is interest in making friends on both sides because, apart from being a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Noisiel is also a city inhabited by representatives of the Croatian diaspora who want to strengthen ties between the two countries.
It’s worth noting that since back 1978 and the beginning of the friendship with the Italian city of Massa Lombarda, Porec has made various forms of friendships with as many as 11 cities. There is a special friendship between Zabok, Porec and Crikvenica, and together they organise cultural events. There is every reason to believe that this new friendship between Porec and Noisiel will be of satisfaction to many in both European cities.
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