In honor of Valentine's Day, I thought I'd show you a really cute element of Sevilla. To express their endless love (cue Lionel Richie song NOW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewf0TnM4eKo) for one another, couples in Sevilla will write their names on a padlock and lock it onto a spindle of the Triana bridge. Then they throw the key into the river so that it can never be unlocked. Word on the street is that this love padlock phenomenon happens all over Europe on bridges in Prague, London, and more. Call me a hopeless romantic, but I like to think that all these couples are still together. Presh.
"Word on the street"? You hip, city person, you.
ReplyDeletewe saw a big gate covered in locks like this in Cinque Terre (i think that's where it started) Now its all over Europe :-)
ReplyDeleteSweet!
color me corrected. according to wikipedia, it likely started in China. They did say the cinque terre padlocks are possibly the most famous.
ReplyDeletekatie - i saw that too. and i looked up the pictures of cinque terre - looks awesome!
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