Welcome, 77 artists, 40 different points of Attica welcomes you by singing Erotokritos an epic romance written at 1713 by Vitsentzos Kornaros
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Where the Romance of Padlocks Began
Padlocks have been showing up on bridges around the world as tokens of couples' promises to safeguard their love. It's a growing tradition that began on a Serbian bridge before World War I when a teacher named Nada and a soldier named Relja pledged their devotion. But Relja fell in love again while fighting in Greece and since then couples go to the bridge to lock up their love.