Pont de l’Archevêché

Another bridge were the locks have been removed. It’s still a wonderful bridge to get amazing views, but be noticed, NO LOVE LOCKS.

Pont de L’archevêché is one of Paris’ most recognizable lock bridges.
Located just beside Notre Dame Cathedral, you can’t miss it.
The inner romantic in me loves lock bridges, even though i know they’re being gradually removed– I’m hoping the removed panels end up in the Pompadou Centre, as they’re beautiful, and basically immersive modern art — but i somehow doubt it.
The locks on this bridge haven’t been removed yet– if you’re over at Notre Dame, be sure to visit here (and Kilometre Zero — see other review).
Look out for the sculpted head on the bridge– it’s kinda creepy!

Hope our lock will still be there when we visit again sometime. But I have a suspicion that they remove locks once in a while…

There are many love lock bridges in Paris, this particular one is behind Notre Dame. If you take a walk down the side of the cathedral between the gardens and the Seine, this is the first bridge you will come to.
I didn’t put a lock on the bridge personally, but I have a lot of photos of it. It looks so beautiful, although when I was there one of the panels of the bridge was covered with plexiglass so no locks could be put on it. As beautiful as the display looks, and as nice as the idea is, the locks have been causing a lot of damage to the bridges and some have even collapsed from the weight of the metal, so it’s hard to say how long the city will keep them up, even as iconic as they are. My advice would be to see Paris before anything is decided about taking them down because they really are beautiful.
I also advise you to come prepared with a lock because there are a lot of people selling them on the street and they’re extremely overpriced (just like pretty much anything people selling on the street there offer). One more thing, if you’re on this bridge, look for this giant antique looking lock, it’s sitting at the top of the railing and stands out easily. It was by far my favourite.

After running around Paris all week, we finally made it to Lovelock Bridge on our last day. Be aware there are actually a few of these bridges around Paris now but I believe this location is the original and most famous. Locks of every type were there, engraved with beautiful quotes and shapes and names. My favourite was a large and very old antique lock. It looked like it could have held the chains around an old gate, it was quite regal and looked like it had been specially cleaned and shined just for the occasion. You could spend time just reading all the engravings, loving quotes and declarations on very special locks for hours. They pour out of the bridge and onto neighboring streets lining the Seine… Of course, if you forget your own lock when you get there, streets across the way sell locks of different types, severely overpriced, with an additional five euro charge to «engrave it yourself.» Meaning they have some weird machine you can use to engrave your lock that is so hard to control it looks like you let a 5yo do it. I promise, it’s much better to bring your own lock. Come prepared! We spent $ 30 like proper ill-​prepared tourists on a dinky lock I could’ve broken with my gardening shears. But it was worth it to be a part of the bridge… Right as we locked ours, the rain stopped and a double-​rainbow came out and well, you can’t beat that for the last day of a romantic trip to Paris.

Very nice place, all the locks are cool. Two things. One, get a lock from somewhere first. The street vendors charge upwards of 8 euros for a 50 cent lock. Secondly, big time scam artists here. Like walking into a thieves den. Be very aware.
Considerations: they are trying to implement a ban on this idea. The locks are causing serious damage and will probably be removed and the practice banned, so give it some thought before locking your devotion and adding stress to an existing problem.

Bringing new meaning to love lockdown (
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Can’t believe we missed this on our first trip to Paris. So, when we had a 24 hour layover in Paris on our way back from Amsterdam we knew we had to hit up the Pont De l’Archeveche — with our engraved locks in tow.
After browsing the outside of Notre Dame, we walked over to the bridge. I was expecting to see a lot of locks but this was insane. They had massive locks hooked on to the railings, with rows and rows of smaller locks attached to those. It was literally a sea of locks, all shapes, all different materials, with different writings and colors. At the risk of getting too deep here, it was all these locks — all these different looking locks — representing all these different couples — different looking couples. It was truly beautiful.
You can spend a good amount of time looking through the locks. From the absolutely absurd giant-​locks (which I assume were used to close the gates to a castle, because there can’t be any other reason for them to exist) to the regular pad locks of all sizes.
The bridge will be busy with love birds, clipping their locks, tossing their keys in the water (what? you aren’t allowed to? Oh, yea, we didn’t…wink-wink). You might see some folks making out hardcore as well. If you aren’t into extreme PDA, you will feel utterly uncomfortable here.
Really cool to leave a little piece of «us» back in Paris and we will go back and see if it’s still there in a few years!

On our stroll we sought out «Lover’s bridge» so that manfriend and I could put a lock on it and throw the keys into the Seine. True Romantic I am *secret* Now if any of you tell, I’ll dish you a knuckle sandwich :)
Suggest bringing a lock of your own as we wanted to search a hardware store or something but sure enough there was a man selling locks and markers. We got a lock for 5euros and put our initials on it to follow tradition. We even got to keep a spare key that we can wear on our necklaces.
Kiss, propose, take pictures, etc. Everywhere you look is spectacular and tres romantique!

What a view from this bridge! You have a wonderful view of the river on both sides, and your eyes will take you on a journey to different neighborhoods of Paris in a single glance.
My girlfriend and I got a padlock and put it on this bridge. It’s quite a nice tradition, and I think it certainly has its appeal. We walked across this bridge several times during our trip, as it connects the paths to some cool landmarks.

A bridge covered in lox? Are you kidding me? Oh… locks… Sorry. Another item checked off the Europe to-​do list.

We started off our Paris trip in November 2012 with Pont de l’Archeveche. We had ordered a fancy padlock with engraving and all to lock onto the bridge, but the lock we ordered never made it in time prior to our trip. So my then bf and I (fiancé after the Paris trip, and now husband) bought a plain black lock to write our names on and take with us to Paris.
The act of locking our simple lock onto the bridge was a memorable way to start our trip. We spent a good 15 minutes here on our walk towards Notre Dame. As another reviewer mentioned, the bridge is literally covered with locks and there wasn’t much free space, but we managed to find a spot. After locking our lock onto the bridge, I threw the key into the River Seine behind the bridge and joked, «Now we’re locked forever!» Later on in the Paris trip, he proposed to me, and now we are married and indeed locked forever! We’re saving our engraved fancier padlock for another bridge to lock onto (bridge still to be determined).
But looking back, this bridge will always be a special spot for being our first bridge to lock our names onto. It is a great bridge to spend a few minutes walking around and reading the colorful, ornate locks of other lovers and imagine what their story and trip to Paris must have been. My favorite lock I found while browsing the many, was the one that had written, «Two drifters off to see the world.» Their words of beautiful Moon River voiced my own sentiments as I overlooked the River Seine.

I agree with reviews, and this bridge was a great place to visit. There was not a lot of free space to add our lock, but we found an area and took pictures. My wife was totally surprised, as she had found the padlock in our luggage and perhaps thought I was going to suggest some sort of S & M thing. :-)
We toured the Notre Dame Cathedral and made our way to the bridge right afterwards. I would recommend this if you want to exercise your romantic side.

I don’t get out much, so if this place is old news, feel free to just nod and smile.
From afar this just looks like a normal bridge. It’s the bridge that crosses the Seine behind the Cathedral Notre Dame. There are other bridges nearby that look far more exciting. But as we got closer, we could see that every inch of the sides of the bridge was covered in padlocks. I was like WTF is this? My sister got mad because she told me she already told me about it. Whoops. I’ve GOT to start listening more often. Something about «locks of love». I tend to get caught up in anything at all that seems romantic or sentimental, even if it’s not.
This guy doesn’t seem to think that a lock is a good symbol of love:
But don’t forget, dude, these locks are the symbols of marriage, not of love.
ANYWHO– cool «hidden gem». Totally random. Carving your initials in a tree is soooooooooo last year.