Over recent years, padlocks attached to bridge
railings as tokens of couples safeguarding their love have become
commonplace in almost all parts of the globe from Paris to Moscow to
China and the US.
The Bridge of Love Locks in Danang is located east of Tran Hung Dao Street, mid-way between the Dragon Bridge and Han River.
Until about a decade ago, however, those locks were confined to a
single pedestrian bridge in the Serbian resort town of Vrnjacka Banja.
In the legend surrounding the bridge and the padlock tradition, a
schoolmistress named Nada would meet her lover, an army officer named
Relja, on the bridge where they pledged their love in the days before
World War I.
The soldier went on to fight the Germans at the Thessaloniki
front in Greece, where he found a new love and married her. Nada is said
to have died of sadness and grief.
Nada's tale of grief inspired young couples determined not to
abandon one another to begin writing their names on padlocks and
chaining them to the fence of the bridge where Nada and Relja swore
their devotion.
Modelled after the love lock bridges in other countries, the
bridges in Vietnam have become hot spots for the young couples to show
their love.
There have been love lock bridges formed in Hanoi, Hue, Da Lat, Nha Trang and now in Danang.
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