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The Pont des Arts (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ dez‿aʁ]) or Passerelle des Arts ([pasʁɛl-]) is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the River Seine.It links the Institut de France and the central square (cour carrée) of the Palais du Louvre, (which had been termed the "Palais des Arts" under the First French Empire).
According to their own research, the 510 foot long bridge is holding 700,000 padlocks -- equaling more than 40 tons. The Pont des Arts is expected to be reopened sometime Monday. Show comments
PARIS (AP) — Any hope that the love locks clinging to Paris' famed Pont des Arts bridge would last forever will be unromantically dashed by the city council's plan to dismantle them Monday ...
The lovelocks of the Pont des Arts disappeared during the night of 11 May 2010; they had been removed by a student of the nearby École des Beaux-Arts to make a sculpture. [29] Love locks immediately began appearing on the Pont de l'Archevêché [ 5 ] and have since spread to at least 11 Seine bridges, the Canal Saint Martin footbridges, and to ...
Pont Neuf (crossing the west corner of the Île de la Cité, Paris's oldest bridge, built between 1578 and 1607) Passerelle des Arts (pedestrian) Pont du Carrousel; Pont Royal; Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor (1999) (pedestrian, formerly the Passerelle de Solférino, renamed in 2006) Pont de la Concorde; Pont Alexandre III; Pont des ...
He has been working by the river for seven years, his stall just by the Pont des Arts bridge. “That’s really where the saddle rubs,” said Jean-François Medioni, 53, who has sold books for ...
A good example of this is love locks, padlocks attached to landmarks, and constructions with the names of lovers engraved or written on them. They began appearing on the Pont des Arts bridge in Paris as early as 2008. They have since then become a widespread phenomenon.
As a symbol of their unending love, couples on New York's Brooklyn Bridge are fastening locks and throwing away the keys. But not everyone is lovin' the gesture.