OXFORD’S new twin city is now officially recognised on signs on key road routes.

Wroclaw in Poland was officially named Oxford’s sixth twin last month after dignitaries were impressed by the university city’s culture on a short trip.

The largest city in western Poland has only been part of that country since border changes in the aftermath of the Second World War – until then it had been Breslau in Germany.

Last week, a group including the city council’s Lord Mayor Colin Cook and Deputy Lord Mayor Sajjad Malik marked the changes with a visit to an updated sign outside Redbridge Park and Ride.

They were joined by Mary Clarkson, the city council’s board member for culture and city centre, Paul Inman, the Pro Vice Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, Paula Redway, the city council’s cultural development manager, and Ewa Gluza, chairwoman of the Oxford Polish Association.

The project to partner up with a Polish city was launched in the spring, with some councillors eager to partner up with new cities before Brexit.

Wroclaw is the first new twin city for Oxford in 23 years, after links were formalised with Russian city Perm in 1995.

It is understood a plan to link up with the Italian university city Padua is still being worked on.

In May, the two cities ‘formally acknowledged and supported the friendship’ between them. Representatives signed a memorandum of understanding.

The cities already have links through the sub-faculty of Italian at Oxford University and at the University of Padua.

At the time, key supporter of twinning and city councillor John Tanner said: “Whatever happens in the Brexit talks Oxford City Council is determined to build ever closer links with cities in the rest of Europe.”

Oxford’s other twin cities are: Perm, Leiden in Netherlands, Bonn in Germany, Leon in Nicaragua and Grenoble in France.

Leiden was the first to link up in 1946, in an effort to forge friendships following the Second World War.

Bonn, which was capital city of West Germany at the time, was formally twinned with Oxford in 1947.

That was one of the first twinning projects between German and British countries following the war.

Oxford twinned with Leon in 1986, but the link took a hit when Leon’s Mayor pulled out of an event last month. The city council requested the Nicaragua ambassador did not attend following worries over human rights abuses. The mayor chose not to visit either.

Grenoble, in the south east of France, twinned with Oxford in 1989.