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Rome is also known as a city with many traditions, they often go back many generations, but sometimes you happen to find yourself living neo-traditions without knowing its real origin This is the case of the padlocks at the Milvio bridge, a custom started by young people (and not so young) who attach a lock on the central streetlight of the Milvio bridge and throw the keys into the river below to show their love. Everything comes from the protagonists of the book “I want you” by Roman author Fedrico Moccia. To strengthen their bond,the characters of the novel leave a padlock on the third lamp of the historic bridge. Many young lovers have imitated the ritual and know Ponte Milvio is known as the lovers’ bridge.

If you are in love and want to take part of what has became a tradition here are the instructions for the Roman bridge of love: you should go on the bridge with a lock and two keys. Done? All right. Now write initials on the lock and close the lamp. Done? Ok. Now take a key and throw it in a river, that will guard your covenant of love And for those who do not believe, Federico Moccia writes on his blog: “For you that dream for you then there is a chain of lovers. Maybe one day you go there on that bridge in Rome, Ponte Milvio, the third streetlight, that overlooks the Tiber, and overlooking the bridge of Corso Francia…And you will find that chain.”