On one of Rome's oldest bridges, the Ponte Milvio, teenagers come to prove their everlasting love by writing their names on a padlock and clipping it to a chain wrapped around one of the bridge’s lampposts, then throwing the keys away into the Tiber.The craze was immortalised last year in I Want You, a romantic novel by Federico Moccia, which has just been turned into a film - you can see the trailer here. Last year one of the lamposts collapsed under the weight of all the padlocks, so now steel columns have been provided.
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