List of bridges with love locks

List of bridges with love locks contains bridges throughout the world which are often host to love locks.

Bridge	Image	Location	River	Dates	Note
Pont des Arts		Paris	Pedestrian bridge over the Seine. It connects the Institut de France and the central square of the Palais du Louvre	1984/2008~15	From late 2008, tourists attached love locks with their first names written or engraved to the railing or the wire netting on the side of the bridge, then throwing the key into the Seine, as a romantic gesture.^[4] Although not a French tradition, with locks occasionally being cut off by city workers, since 2012, the number of locks covering the bridge became overwhelming, with locks being attached to other locks. In February 2014, it was estimated^[5] that there were over 700,000 locks. By that year, concern was being expressed about the possible damage the locks' weight was doing to the bridge. In May, Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced that she was tasking her First Deputy Mayor, Bruno Julliard, with finding alternatives to love locks.^[6] In June, part of the parapet on the bridge collapsed under the weight of all of the padlocks.^[7]
Pont de l'Archevêché		Paris	Pedestrian bridge over the Seine near the Notre Dame cathedral.^[8]	1828^[9]/2010~15

Bridge	Location	Waterway	Dates	Note
Multiple bridges	Milan^[12]	Navigli
Ponte Milvio	Rome^[13]	Tiber River	109 BC (stone bridge)/2006~12	Following the release of the popular book and 2006 movie "I Want You" (Ho voglia di te) by Italian writer Federico Moccia, couples started to attach love padlocks to a lamppost on the bridge. After attaching the lock, they would throw the key behind them into the Tiber.^[14] After the lamppost partially collapsed in 2007 because of the weight of the padlocks, all parts of the bridge—including its balustrades, railings and garbage bins—were used. It has continued despite Rome's city council introducing a €50 fine for anyone found attaching locks to the bridge. In 2012, city authorities removed all locks from the bridge.^[15]
Ponte dell'Accademia, Ponte del Rialto, Scalzi Bridge^[16]	Venice	Grand Canal^[17]

Bridge	Location	River	Dates	Note
DuSable Bridge	Chicago, Illinois	Chicago River	1920	The Chicago Department of Transportation cuts love locks off this and other bridges whenever they notice them due to the dangers of their falling on people below.
Pedestrian bridge on Clipper Drive	Discovery Bay, California	California Delta waterways	Phenomenon started around 2013	A lover's bridge was created by newlyweds Carolyn and Anthony George. The couple married on 11/11/11, and after seeing the movie Now You See Me, got the idea to create a location for lovers to be "locked in love", by putting a love lock on the bridge and throwing the keys into the waterways that surround Discovery Bay.^[24]
Walkway on Brooklyn Bridge	New York City and Brooklyn	East River	1883	As a tourist attraction, the bridge is a popular site for clusters of love locks. The practice is illegal in New York City and the NYPD can give violators a $100 fine. NYCDOT workers periodically remove the love locks from the bridge at a cost of $100,000 per year.^[25]^[26]^[27] There have been private efforts to remove the locks; for example, one man led a group of lock-breakers to remove some in February 2013,^[28] and a local woman removed locks and various pieces of debris from the bridge in early 2026.^[29]

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