LOVE LOCKS AT THE MOST LJUBAVI, VRNJAčKA BANJA SERBIA

The Most Ljubavi bridge, more commonly known as the "love bridge", is located in Serbia in the city of Vrnjačka Banja. Vrnjačka Banja is located about two and a half hours north of Belgrade, a journey into the capital that created the tradition of love padlocks.

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With its proximity to Belgrade and the colorful and romantic history, it has become a popular tourist destination for Serbian travelers both local and international. But an even stronger attraction of the city itself comes from local couples eager to add their padlock pledge of their promise of love to the already large existing collection. This gave another nickname to the site: Love Lock. Alternatively, the site is sometimes indicated as a lock of love or simply a padlock (not to be confused with the white overpass of Vranje, another city located about three hours north-north-northwest of Vrnjačka Banja).

The true story behind tradition

The legend of the Ljubavi's love of the love dates back to all probability at the beginning of the twentieth century, when Serbia and Greece faced each other in war. At the time a teacher named Nada was attending a young Serbian soldier named Relja. They often met at Most Ljubavi during their courtship. As many young couples do, they had promised themselves in that place love and commitment to each other just before Reija left for the war. In fact, shortly after the promise and then engaged with each other, Relja leaves for Greece, where, after the collapse of the Serbian front following the Austro-Hungarian attack of 6 October 1915, he fell in love with one local woman from Corfu. This made the two young people broke their engagement.

Nada no longer recovered from that devastating blow and shortly afterwards he died of his unfortunate love. Hear this news, the girls of Vrnjačka Banja wanted to protect their loves, and began to write their names together with the names of their loved ones on the padlocks. They tied them to the railing of the bridge where Nada and Relja met. However, tradition has become extinct over time. It was only when Serba Maksimović's writer and poet and poetess wrote a poem entitled to Prayer for Love (in Serbian: Molitva Za Ljubav) that the legend regained popularity. People have started to tie their love to the bridge again with the so -called "love of love". As a result, he acquired the name Bridge of Love. After people have tied their love with a railing lock, the keys should be thrown into the river below, so that they could no longer be found.

Another bridge in Serbia is also known with the appellation of "Love Bridge".

It is the Bianco bridge in Vranje, built in the name of a tragic love never made. Serbia did not get well during the war and in the end the war efforts of the Serbs were not successful. After the defeat of the Serbian army, Relja remained in Corfu, a small town located right on the border between Greece and Serbia on the Greek side. He chose that seat because he had fallen in love with a local Greek girl. Reija and Nada never revived in their lives again. But the worst thing of this refusal and abandonment is that Nada never exceeded abandonment. Poignant and sadly let themselves be cleared until death for an unrequited love. She died shortly after and the other single and loyal women of her city have noticed it. They soon understood that their destiny would be different from that of the unfortunate Nada, the girls took to the street, each with a padlock and a key to love literally in hand, and headed towards the meeting place of Nada and Relja. They wrote their name and the name of their beloved on the front of their locks, attacking them together with chain jersey. Then they symbolically threw their keys into the river to protect their love. Over the decades, the site is thus covered with love of love and the structure below is now almost completely obscured. If it were not for the ground under their feet and the river that flows below, nobody could even realize the existence of the overpass!

"A prayer for love" by Desanka Maksimović

The southern region of Serbia has many stories, poems and colorful and memorable superstitions intertwined in its long history, but a stands out. It is a poem entitled "a prayer for love" of the poet's poet Desanka Maksimović. After a while, the tradition of attacking locks and throwing the keys into the river began to vanish. The young couples forgot themselves with Nada and Reija and the premature fate of Nada. The existing closed closed have become a curiosity, in the best of cases a tourist attraction. But everything changed when Desanka Maksimović, who regularly attended the nearby spas of Vrnjačka Banja, heard the story.

He was so moved by the story of Nada and Reija and the tradition that for a certain period had been born around it that he composed a verse called Molitva Za Ljubavi ("a prayer for love"). As a prominent poet, Maksimovic's verses have rekindled the interest in the story of Nada and Reija and for the tradition that surrounds it. Once again, the young couples, through his poems, were about to embark on the journey to the site to add their lacketes of love and throw the keys into the river. But this time, they were not only couples just engaged or promises, but also partners married for some time that celebrated weddings and anniversaries who participated in tradition.

The birth of the tradition of the love locks in modern times

Due to the international visibility of Maksimovic, the tradition began to take hold in other cities, in particular in the same city of love, Paris. Today all over the world couples remember Nada and Reija and go to the places where this tradition is practiced, often taking commemorative photos and even noting the GPS coordinates for their memory books. However, we do not know if the story of Nada and Relja is true but it seems that people don't care much if Nada and Reija have existed in flesh and blood or if the story is historically accurate. Her romanticity elevated her to a pledge of love even before knowing faces and names of the characters who would have lived it. However, it seems that the custom in Serbia is true to meet the overpass and declare love for the whole life to the outbreak of the war and is still practiced all over the world.

Create your vistern love lock in Vrnjačka Banja

People resonate with symbolism, romance, purity and innocence of these gestures and want to participate. So why choose Vrnjačka Banja to create your virtual love lock with Love You Too? Vrnjačka Banja has a unique attitude towards the closure, the Serbian site and the continuous influx of pilgrims in love that go there. It is the finding of tradition and where everything was born. What's more romantic than this?

Visiting it in the reality and difference of other cities, where the love of love are increasingly removed in the interest of the structural integrity or pollution of the waterways, the officials of Vrnjačka Banja protect the site with the utmost care e they encourage the continuation of tradition. Their attitude is really very nice! Officials welcome these expressions of love, stating that love is one of the few truly "resources 

renewable "and should be celebrated. Not only that: the officials do not remove them also out of respect for the individual stories. In fact, they do not want to bring bad luck to any of the couples who added the padlock and the initials of love to the site! Their attitude is that The structural integrity of the overpass itself is solid and may be more than to bear the weight of the existing padlocks and welcome new ones in the future.

Vrnjačka Banja: Serbian romantic city

This city is also a renowned tourist resort due to the mineral thermal sources of Vrnjačka Banja. This has made the town a popular destination for both premises and tourists. Some come for physical healing, some come for emotional healing and many couples come to immerse themselves in a culture that continues to celebrate, protect and preserve romantic love, past, present and far in the future. Listening to one's dreams and feelings has always been the best source of well -being that each of us can find.