For anyone who’s been searching for signs of love in this world, there was proof of it this Valentine’s Day on the Eiffel Tower, where a couple embraced in a kiss that was 674 steps above the avenues of Paris.
A couple kiss on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower during Valentine’s day, in Paris, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
A vendor sits next to a kiosk at Rizhsky flower market on Valentine’s Day in Moscow, Russia. Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
A couple kisses during a Valentine’s Day competition in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
But love was also on display in far less iconic locales: A couple kissed on a park bench in Budapest, Romania. Florists made bouquets in a flower shop in Lagos, Nigeria. Heart-shaped plaques were tied to a tree branch at a shrine in Tokyo.
Associated Press photographers on Friday captured moments of the holiday around the world.
A florist holds a rose bouquet outside a flower shop on Valentine’s Day, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025 in Lagos, Nigeria. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Heart-shaped wish plaques tied to a branch are seen at a shrine Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, on Valentine’s Day, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
In Germany, people walked across the Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne, where an estimated 500,000 “love locks” were attached, the padlocks engraved with inscriptions of lovers. In Erbstetten on the Swabian Alb, a wedding couple was made of bales of straw.
In Rome, flowers were placed next to “St. Valentine Skull” in the Santa Maria in Cosmedin Basilica. On Thursday, visitors admired the statue “Paolina Borghese as Venus Victorious” during an event at the Galleria Borghese museum.
People passing the traditional love locks on Valentine’s Day on the Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne, Germany, where an estimated 500,000 padlocks with engravings and inscriptions of lovers have been attached to the bridge over the years, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
A wedding couple made of bales of straw covered in snow on Valentine’s Day in Erbstetten on the Swabian Alb, Germany, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (Thomas Warnack/dpa via AP)
The “St. Valentine Skull” is crowned with flowers in the Santa Maria in Cosmedin Basilica, in Rome Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
And in a different take on the tradition of giving flowers to one’s Valentine, in Cambodia’s southern Phnom Penh, villagers made flowers from corn husks in Tnout Chum Village. While back to the traditional, a florist arranged a rose bouquet outside a flower shop in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Local villagers make fake flowers from corn husk in Tnout Chum Village, southern Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Valentine’s Day Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
A florist arranges a rose bouquet outside a floral shop on Valentine’s Day, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025 in Hanoi, Vietnam. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)
