Lovers deposit their love stories at LOVE BANK on Valentine's Day in Slovak town

Lovers deposit their love stories at LOVE BANK on Valentines Day in Slovak town
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A small town in medieval Slovak town, on this Valentine\'s Day the couples are getting ready to deposit their love stories in a place.

A small town in medieval Slovak town, on this Valentine's Day the couples are getting ready to deposit their love stories in a place.

The Love bank is the main attraction if an exhibition commemorating the world's longest love poem Marina by Slovak poet Andrej Sladkovic

Written in 1844, the 2900 line long poem tells the tale of the doomed love between the poet and Maria pischlova.

For many couples it's the love bank that attracts them to the site where they can store and preserve mementos if their romance. A long tunnel in the basement of the house had been turned into a vault with exactly 100,000 tiny drawers, one for each letter, gap and punctuation mark of the original, 174 year old manuscript of marina.

Lovers are allowed to make deposits a few times a year the next date falls on the Valentine's Day.

The designers of the exhibition eye turning the epicentre of love into a major attraction for lover from across the globe.

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