Tuesday, September 8, 2015

The Love Locks of Paris



Strolled the Seine today.  My mission was to see the love locks on the bridges, started here about 2008.  A mistaken belief is that they are a longstanding tradition of Paris, but they originated about 100 years ago in a Serbian tale.  They present a great controversy, because their added weight caused a partial collapse of the parapet of Pond Des Arts.  There is great concern about preserving the historic bridges.

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