 As young women from Vrnjačka Banja wanted to protect their own loves, they started writing down their names, with the names of their loved ones, on padlocks and affixing them to the railings of the bridge where Nada and Relja used to meet.In the rest of Europe, love padlocks started appearing in the early 2000s as a ritual or epidemy.The reasons love padlocks started to appear vary between locations and in many instances are unclear.