Culture: city specific or civilization specific?

[Dry]

I always thought that the culture level would be same for all cities of a given civ, but following screenshots seems to show that it is more city specific:

http://www.civfanatics.com/cgi-bin/autoimage.cgi?/civ3images/1-1-2225.jpg

http://www.civfanatics.com/cgi-bin/autoimage.cgi?/civ3images/16-16-2225.jpg

on the last one, look at the difference between Chartres, Marseilles and Sevastopol.
None of them are limited by neighbours, but they have cultural ranges of respectiveliy 1, 3 and 2.

So, this mean... you take an ennemy city, all buildings are new (0 cultural value), this new city of you has 0 range culture...

[Grumbold]

Yes it seems that way. If you live in a newly founded village in France you're totally unpatriotic even if Paris is just down the road. Now there are a lot of practical problems this creates for capturing cities but until we get the game we won't know for sure quite how it is handled.