The Pont des Arts footbridge over the Seine in central Paris was closed for a few hours on Sunday after a metal grill laden with padlocks left by amorous couples collapsed onto the walkway. Padlocks ...

LOVE CAN WEIGH HEAVY ON COUPLE’S HEARTS….BUT EVEN HEAVIER ON AGING PARISIAN BRIDGES. KNOWN TO TRAVELERS AS THE CITY OF LOVE, TOURISTS AND ROMANTICS ALIKE FLOCK TO FRANCE’S PICTURESQUE BRIDGES ...

Lovers visiting Paris will soon have to find a new way of expressing their affections now that the city has decided to remove locks from its famed Pont des Arts aka "Love Lock" bridge. For years, ...

PARIS, June 9 (Reuters) - The Pont des Arts footbridge over the Seine in central Paris was closed for a few hours on Sunday after a metal grill laden with padlocks left by amorous couples collapsed ...

The city hopes to raise money to help the country's roughly 800,000 refugees. — -- For years, placing "love locks" on a bridge in Paris had become a romantic ritual and a symbol of permanent love ...

Tourists are currently not allowed on the Pont des Arts bridge in Paris after a chunk of its metal grille fell away under the weight of thousands of "love locks" (padlocks) on June 8. Police have ...

They were left on bridges in Paris as tokens of affection. Now thousands of padlocks — many with lovers' names and messages scrawled on them — are heading to the auction block. The city of Paris says ...

It’s been more than a year since Paris ended its relationship with love locks. The popular tradition of attaching padlocks to the city’s bridges - as a symbol of true love - ended after the city ...

HOUSTON -- While Houston's breathtaking skyline continues to be a photographer's dream, couples in love are now heading to the one pedestrian bridge that offers not only the skyline as a backdrop, but ...

Love is heavy business in France, where “love locks” once covered—and even collapsed—city bridges. Alas, the fad of locking your love onto a Parisian structure is now forbidden, but that doesn’t mean ...

Parisians and tourists attached heart-shaped padlocks onto the Pont des Arts bridge on Thursday to celebrate Valentine’s Day in the French capital – the “City of Love”. The lovestruck couples then ...

Sad that the 'love locks' are being taken down from the Pont des Arts footbridge in Paris? Consider the local L.A. alternative. Couples visiting Paris, the ultimate city of l'amour, have long left a ...