The ..trend is transferred from the banks of the Seine, to the small bridge of Volos – Lovers place padlocks with which they promise eternal love – The custom seems to have started in Serbia by a couple who were separated during the Second World War
In Europe as well as in other continents it is a common phenomenon that every bridge has thousands of padlocks with which lovers “lock” ttheir love.
The origin of the story of love locks belongs to the famous and ever padlocked Pont Des Arts Bridge in romantic Paris.
The bridge of Volos
A few years ago, this habit also started in Volos. The small bridge that connects the city beach with the breakwater became the new “bridge of love”, after hundreds of padlocks were locked there, with the names of the lovers, becoming a new tourist attraction for Volos.
There is however information that the inspiration for the locks on the bridges started from Serbia
A love poem written in the middle of the 20th century by the poet of Serbian origin Desanka Maksimović entitled “Molitva za ljubav” (“Prayer for love”), which was inspired by an old story that happened in the Serbian town of Vrnjačka Banja. during World War I, it was the beginning….
In the romantic ma bitter story mentioned in the poem, a Serbian couple named Nada and Relja were separated during World War I, Nada died of a broken heart after Relja fell in love with another woman. Upon hearing the story, women in Vrnjačka Banja began to write their names and their partners’ names on padlocks and stick them to the railings of the bridge where Nada and Relja met, thus starting a tradition that would last to this day. Thanks to the poem, young Serbs in love install padlocks to trap their lovers so that they are not abandoned (kind of like a preventive spell).
The bridge soon got the name Most ljubavi or the Bridge of Love. While the rest of the world had their own reasons for using love locks, Southern Serbia believed in its own set of superstitions. The locks placed on the Bridge of Love have never been removed. There are over fifteen bridges in the town of Vrnjačka Banja, but no one can deny that this legendary bridge is the one that triggered the locks of the locked hearts of millions of lovers around the world!
The publication of the best-seller and later the film “I want you” in 2006 by the author Federico Moccia, which was about a young couple who locked a padlock to seal their love, on a bridge in Rome ( Ponte Milvio) became the occasion to spread the custom of love locks from then on to the rest of Europe!
Source: Skai
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