Love locks

For years, loving couples have been writing their names on a padlock and locking it in central locations around the world, symbolizing the eternity of their love.

Some interesting facts about love locks

According to legend, the custom of hanging love locks began in Serbia just before World War I in 1915. The story is about a young Serbian couple who used to meet on a bridge in the town of Vrnjačka Banja, where they planned their life together. Her fiancé, Relja, went off to fight in Greece, where he met another woman and married her. Nada fell into a deep depression and eventually died. Since then, the young women of the town have made a habit of hanging locks on the bridge with their names and their partners' names, throwing the key into the water as a sign of eternal love and to ensure their partner could not change their mind.

Although UNESCO designated the bridges used for hanging love locks in Paris as World Heritage Sites, the Paris authorities decided that the weight of the accumulated locks on the bridge had become a safety hazard. The most famous pedestrian bridge in the city of lovers, the Pont des Arts, was closed in 2015, and 45 tons of 700,000 locks that had been hung since 2008, when the custom began in Paris, were removed.
In Venice, you are allowed to hang love locks on the Accademia Bridge on the Grand Canal; anywhere else, you will receive a 3,000 euro fine.

In Tel Aviv, love locks are hung on the bridge that crosses the Yarkon River near Reading – the Tel Aviv municipality loves the lovers and does not bother them.

In Moscow, it is common to hang love locks on trees. Red love locks are the most sought after.

In Las Vegas, there is a special place on the Strip next to the Paris Hotel where you can hang locks, but you are not allowed to throw the key into the fountain water.

The magician Harry Houdini worked as a locksmith to make a living before he became famous.

Marriage proposals are the most popular reason, but there are couples who buy them to mark wedding anniversaries.

Even though the municipality in Paris removed the locks three years ago, tourists renewed the tradition and continued to hang locks. Does the fact that there are many locks on the bridge not bother the couples? On the contrary, this shared romance reinforces the feeling of the couples that they have done the right thing. If so many have committed to an eternal bond – we can too.

Monogram love locks do not rust.

Even on the Great Wall of China, the authorities have designated a special area where one can hang love locks. On Huángshān (the Yellow Mountain), along the mountain hiking trail, one will find love locks according to the best of Chinese tradition, intended for couples and love.

Sid Vicious, lead singer of the Sex Pistols, stabbed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen to death and died of an overdose in the late seventies—on his neck, a chain with a padlock was found. Or rather, she had locked the chain on his neck. The character of the Joker in the film "The Dark Knight" is based on his colorful persona.
In Rome: The Ponte Milvio bridge became a love lock bridge following Frederico Moccia's 2006 book, "Ho voglia di te." Following the book and the film, the bridge became a site for lovers and love locks.