LOVE LOCKS

A big craze in Europe last year, write your and your beloveds initials on a padlock and lock it to a public fence, gate, pole, wall whatever, found these on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence...

Padlocks

I've done a black and white set over at YeLPanorama, if you feel like checking it out click here

Padlocks of love

Comments

Irishman said…
I've also seen it in Riga, Latvia, and St Petersburg in Russia. And I've even noticed a couple here, but the Council don't take kindly to it...

http://www.thejournal.ie/wheres-the-love-council-removes-love-padlocks-from-dublins-hapenny-bridge-327300-Jan2012/
stu said…
yeah I saw it in lots of places, some cities are keeping them (for now) as they attract tourists and besides the more they remove the more they reappear lol
Irishman said…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianmca/8235448633
stu said…
ENGRAVED?! That's a serious one lol
Irishman said…
If I was on my other computer I'd send you some pics of the bridge - it's a *big* tradition in St Petersburg, and SPB is the wedding capital - I counted 13 in one day, that's on a random walk through the city.
Irishman said…
heh, sorry to keep coming back to this, but it coincidentally cropped up online today: http://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/12/03/the-locks-are-back-ted/
stu said…
ha, be around for a while methinks
Anonymous said…
it was started on the ponte vecchio in florence by one of the jewlers to increase sales and is now the scerge of italian towns -Reb.
stu said…
and non Italian, I've seen it as far field as Las Vegas!!