A recently married couple from Poland, Dominika and Bartek Mieczkowski, embrace near grills covered with “love locks” on a walkway which leads to the Pont de Arts over the River Seine in Paris, France, on Sunday. The bridge was closed yesterday and the padlocks which hang on the bridge will be removed by city municipal employees. A city hall campaign to save the bridges of Paris from the weight of hundreds of thousands of brass “love locks” has not checked the ardor of droves of tourists, who continue to view the City of Light as the City of Love. Iron grills lining the bridge have since 2008 been increasingly covered by brass locks purporting to symbolize the unending love of visiting tourists.SD-Agencies
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