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Paris Love Locks

Where Love Gets Locked Forever. Everyone knows Paris as ‘the romance capital’ and the ‘city for lovers’. a few years ago, a new fad started, when love-struck sweethearts started to lock padlocks onto the chain link fence on the Passerelle des Arts, which crosses from the left bank to the Louvre museum. The love padlocks, called ‘cadenas d’amour’, multiplied until there were more than 2,000 love tokens on the bridge, each one with an engraved message of love. After locking the love padlock onto the fence, the lovers tossed the keys into the Seine river – a sign of their eternal love.






























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Location: Seine, France

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