City of Heidelberg, Germany

 Mark Twain once heard a Californian say that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

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(in Germany) The Mark Twain Center for Transatlantic Relations was established in 2018 as an initiative of the City of Heidelberg. The Center’s mission is to combine living memory with academic research and culture. The central focus is to provide a "Heidelberg perspective" on the elements that have united German and American people for centuries. The Mark Twain Center (MTC) has been established in the former Keyes Building at Campbell Barracks. Erected in 1937 as an officer’s mess during the period of Germany’s remilitarization, it went on to serve as the European headquarters of the US Army until the military withdrawal in 2013. Because of its history, the building includes a various elements that reflect its twofold past. Mark Twain described the Heidelberg of 1878 as “the last possibility of the beautiful.” The popular American writer spent almost five months in the city during his European tour and described with fascination both the picturesque landscape and his experiences of the German people. After 1945 the US forces named their newly erected living quarters at Heidelberg’s Campbell Barracks the "Mark Twain Village" in reference to the American author.