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Gerico

 The twinning pact between Pisa and Gerico was signed in the 2000 to consolidate the exchange and cooperation between two historically important towns. Gerico, in fact, has got an extraordinary cultural relief: recent excavations have shown that it is the oldest urban settlement of the world. Famous for the biblical tale concerning the destruction of its walls, the town represents an oasis of green in the desert. The plantations of palms, roses and oranges, fed by the waters of the river Jordan and from the numerous underground affluents from the Central Mountains, characterize its landscape since the most ancient times. The twinning pact between Pisa and Gerico does not run out in the cultural world but fit into the project of the Tuscan Region to establish a relationship of pacific cohabitation and cooperation between Israel and Palestine.