Landmark
Father Bernatek’s Bridge
Steel-arch footbridge with dangling acrobat sculptures, once thick with lovers' padlocks.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the footbridge over the Vistula in Kraków starts with nine bronze acrobats frozen mid-fall above the water, then traces the bridge's own short history: built in 2010 to reconnect the long-separated Kazimierz and Podgórze districts, and soon layered with thousands of lovers' padlocks. You'll hear how the padlock habit grew so heavy that the city had to intervene, and what happened to all that removed iron. It closes by asking where the bridge's own name actually comes from.
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