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As the French media joke, love is sometimes too many: thousands of iron castles, symbolizing the fortress of marriage and love bonds and traditionally attached to the railing of one of the bridges through the Parisian Seine, became the cause of its partial collapse. Lovers had to be evacuated from the dangerous bridge. As reported local edition of The Local, located right in front of the Louvre Museum The Bridge of Arts (Pont des Arts) is famous not only for its the first iron bridge in the city, built by Napoleon at the beginning of XIX century. In memory of a visit to Paris, couples in love hang on bridge railing decorative locks – usually sell them right there local enthusiastic merchants. According to tradition, you need to write on the locks their names, and throw the coveted key into the waters of the Seine. However, under weighing thousands of iron castles the railing of the bridge on one side is still not stood and collapsed. Paris police had to urgently order to evacuate the tourists who were at that moment on the bridge. According to AFP, the pedestrian Pont des Arts was immediately blocked. Representatives of local authorities arrived at the scene and architectural service – according to them, access to the bridge will be again open only a few days later. Romantic tourist tradition has become a real headache for the city authorities – with In 2008, castles covered a 150-meter-long bridge over a dense network length, violating the aesthetic appearance of the city and causing discontent Parisians. Also, finding no place on the Pont des Arts, tourists made a habit of hanging their locks on other Parisian bridges. Two thousands of Americans living in Paris gathered in March this year signatures on a petition to remove locks from the railing of the bridge – according to locals, they not only hurt the eyes, but also harm the construction of the bridge itself. A similar “castle” tradition is also distributed in Italy, Germany, China and Russia.
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