Messages of love around the world

In the lead-up to Valentine’s Day, here are some creative ways that the four letter word has been transmitted.

Le mur des je t’aime (the wall of I love you), Square Jean Rictus, Place des Abesses, Paris

Love messages, Juliet’s house, Verona, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Veneto, Italy

Love locks on the Milvio Bridge in Rome, Italy

‘I love you’ drawn in snow on car

Protest sign “Love is the law”, Occupy Melbourne, demonstration in the city centre with about 200 participants, Melbourne

Aerial view of lettering “ich liebe dich”, German for “I love you” on a field near Altrandsberg, Bavarian Forest, Bavaria, Germany

Graffiti on the ground, “Mon amour” as a declaration of love in Paris, France

“Love is only a four letter word”, inscription on the Hohenzollern Bridge, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany