Love locks usa

Love padlocks by night on Butchers’ Bridge in Ljubljana, Slovenia. A love lock or love padlock is love locks usa padlock which sweethearts lock to a bridge, fence, gate, monument, or similar public fixture to symbolize their love.

Since the 2000s, love locks have proliferated at an increasing number of locations worldwide. They are now mostly treated by municipal authorities as litter or vandalism, and there is some cost to their removal. However, there are authorities who embrace them, and who use them as fundraising projects or tourist attractions. As young women from Vrnjačka Banja wanted to protect their own loves, they started writing down their names, with the names of their loved ones, on padlocks and affixing them to the railings of the bridge where Nada and Relja used to meet. In the rest of Europe, love padlocks started appearing in the early 2000s as a ritual or epidemy.