Nahtanoj Ecyb
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| The beginning of locking your love |
Paris, France is an amazing place many lovers go and experience
the magic of the city of love, but one of the most famous tourist traditions
has been put on hold for the Pont Des Arts Bridge famous of the love locks
lovers lock on the bridge is no more. For the bridge famous for love can no
longer bare the weight of people’s love locks. Which has many lovers
disappointed over this fact for they were not about to put their on locks on
the bridge and lock in their love.
The Pont des Arts Bridge was built in 1801 and orders from
Napoleon. The bridge is crosses over the Seine River. The bridge is not the
same as it is today, for when first build it was an iron bridge which was the
first one in France. The bridge was damaged from bombings during WWI, WWII, and
boats colliding into it. The current Pont des Arts Bridge which was built
identically from the first was made from steel. The Bridge is now a spot for
art show.
Pont des Arts is not just a regular bridge for it had a mystery
surrounding it which involved love locks. It seems that no one knows who
started the trends or when it started, but some people have come up with a
legend that states the origins of love locks and why there so popular. “Legend states that just before World War II,
in the town of Vrnjacka Banja, a couple named Nada and Relja found themselves
embroiled in a passionate, amorous tryst. When war broke out, Relja enlisted in
the army, and Nada pledged to faithfully await his return; however, she later
discovered that Relja had fallen for another woman while away on the
frontlines. As the story goes, Nada died from a broken heart, and in her
memory, other village girls began attaching padlocks onto the Most Ljubavi
Bridge (translated: “Bridge of Love”), where Nada and Relja once spent their
time. On these padlocks, each girl wrote her name alongside her beloved’s name
to ensure that special someone wouldn’t leave as Relja had”. (Rendón)
The Love lock mystery in Paris is believed to have started in
2008 when couples travel to Paris and arrive to the bridge and engraved their
names onto the locks placing it anywhere on the bridge and throws the key into
the river. This show of love continued on tell June of 2015 when the city had the
panels where most of the locks were on the bridge remove, for the weight of the
locks where destroying the panels and causing a safety problem for the bridge
was not made to hold the amount of weight all the locks added up to which was
about forty tons. The city is now replacing the panels with glass with artist
drawing. Now the bridge is used to have art shows.
Love Locks are not just popular in Paris but many places in the
world and the city were the love lock trends is have made the locks in to a
piece of art work, for example in Moscow, Russia the locks are attached on a
man-made metal tree, and Toronto, Canada there are heart shaped sculptures
couples can put their padlocks, so that they want put it on the Humber Bay
Arch Bridge.
Work Citied:
“PONT DES ARTS
BRIDGE” NAPOLEON.org, http://www.napoleon.org/en/magazine/places/pont-des-arts-bridge/. Accessed 11 Oct.
2016.
CBS This Morning. “Paris removes “love locks” over weight
fears.” YouTube, 1 Jun. 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7xxHXioddI.
Fouquet Helene., and
Mark Deen."Locked and overloaded; Parisian bridges threatened by weight of
countless 'love locks' left on railings." The Gazette (Montreal), 10 June.
2014, http://www.lexisnexis.com.ezproxy.usca.edu:2048/hottopics/lnacademic/. Accessed 7 Oct.
2016.
Key, Derek. Pont Des Arts, Paris. 9 April. 2013,
Commons. Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pont_des_Arts,_Paris_9_April_2013.jpg.
Morenne Benoit.
“Paris Bridge of Love Locks Now One of Sculptures.” The New York Times, 25 May.
2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/world/europe/paris-bridge-of-love-locks-now-one-of-sculptures.html.
Accessed 9 Oct. 2016
Rendón, Frankie.
“Love Locks: The History and Appeal” The
Huffington Post.com, 28 Aug 2016, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frankie-rendon/love-locks-the-history-an_1_b_8056154.html/. Accessed 11 Oct.
2016.
BBC New. “
’Lovelocks’ collapse Paris bridge rail- BBC News” YouTube, 9 June. 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSM3AreSiAA
Other sources:
No Love Locks
A website of a
petition that locals in Paris made to ban people putting love locks on the
bridge
Love Locks online
A website that
promotes the custom of placing lovelocks on landmarks.
New York Post
Tells the problems of that hanging love locks
on the Brooklyn Bridge. Which is a similar case to Pont Des Art Bridge
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