The padlocks of love
You heard the latest? They have taken away the locks of love!
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"For some time, it is customary for young lovers, put a padlock on the lamp center of the bridge and lay the keys into the Tiber, so that no one in the future will break their pledge of love. The custom seems to have been initiated by the cadets of the School of Health in Costa San Giorgio, which bound to leave the lock on their locker on some footing of the bridge. This tradition is passed in the wake of love, and has been very popular as a result of the book I want you to Federico Moccia where, exactly, the two men swear eternal love closing a lock in the center pole of the bridge.
The same custom also exists on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, where it is used the gate of the monument to Benvenuto Cellini.
the morning of March 3, 2007 have been removed in all the locks around the lamppost, because presumably be linked to the controversy that occurred in the last days of the administration Parre the capital, the need to restore dignity to the tips because of these locks considered inelegant. "
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