Wall of Love: Montmartre, Paris, France

As Carol and I were strolling around Montmartre this spring with our Avalon Waterways tour guide, she brought us to the Wall of Love to snap a few photographs.

The Wall of Love (French: Le mur des je t’aime, lit. the I Love You Wall) is a love-themed wall of 40 square meters (430 sq ft) in the Jehan Rictus Garden Square in Montmartre, Paris, France. The wall was created in 2000 by calligraphist Fédéric Baron and mural artist Claire Kito and is composed of 612 tiles of enameled lava, on which the phrase ‘I love you’ is featured 311 times in 250 languages. Each tile is 21 by 29.7 centimeters (8.3 in × 11.7 in). It includes the words ‘I love you’ in all major languages, but also in rarer ones like Navajo, Inuit, Bambara, and Esperanto. The wall is open to public free of charge. The red splashes on the wall symbolize parts of a broken heart and can be gathered to form a full heart. (via Wikipedia)

The wall is in a beautiful park with lots of shade and benches and might be a lovely place for a little picnic lunch.  🙂

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