A Highland Park mural, given as a gift to its Sister City last summer, will be hung in the Puerto Vallarta Airport in honor of the relationship between the two cities.

The mural painted by Chicago-based artist Oscar Romero will be dedicated at the Mexican city’s airport by Puerto Vallarta officials, who decided to hang the mural there, Highland Park officials said.

Titled “Cultures Connected Through Music,” the mural is supposed to signify the strong bonds between the two cities which have been Sister Cities since 2002. It was paid for by the Highland Park Sister Cities Foundation through donations. Foundation officials declined to comment on the price tag.

The mural had been presented to Puerto Vallarta as part of a larger cultural exchange celebration in July when about 15 Mexican dignitaries arrived in Highland Park to attend Ravinia piano concerts and partake in gourmet dinners.

The trip coincided with the “Mexico 2010 Commemorations in Chicago” celebration, which marks the 200th anniversary of the start of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain and the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Mexican Revolution.

They attended a dinner to celebrate Mexico 2010 in Ravinia’s private dining room, where master chef Thierry Blouet, owner of gourmet restaurants Café des Artistes in Puerto Vallarta and Café des Artistes del Mar in Punta Mita, prepared the meal.

Later, Highland Park resident and Mexican-born, Jorge Federico Osorio, a classical pianist, performed Beethoven’s concertos Nos. 1, 2 and 3, accompanied by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

The Sister Cities program is administered through Washington, D.C.-based Sister Cities International, which helped match Highland Park with its foreign siblings. The goal of the program is to exchange cultural ideas and learn from each other.

Highland Park is also a Sister City to two Italian cities, Moderna and Ferrara.