St Pancras tops romantic list

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According to Lonely Planet, the travel guide publisher, St Pancras International’s Meeting Place ranks alongside the Taj Mahal and Juliet’s House (Casa de Giulietta), in Verona, Italy as the most romantic meeting place in the world.

The station tops a list of the World’s Most Romantic Spots published by the Lonely Planet Guide- the handbook of wanderers everywhere.

At the heart of the Meeting Place is a 27ft tall bronze sculpture of a couple embracing by Paul Day, the British artist.

The Grade I-listed station has been renovated and modernised in recent years, at a cost of around £800 million, and has become a hub for Eurostar services to Europe.

The Victorian brick building was only saved from demolition in the 1960s by a campaign whose supporters included the former poet laureate Sir John Betjeman.

Simon Calder, the travel writer, has described St Pancras as, ‘the world’s most beautiful railway station.’

Stiff competition includes the tomb of legendary lovers, Abelard and Heloise, in the P̬re Lachaise Cemetery in Paris; the Eiffel Tower Рthe one in Las Vegas; the Plaza de los Coches in old town Cartagena, Colombia; the fortuitously named Alley of the Kiss, in Guanajuato, Mexico; and Yellow Mountain (or Huangshan), in China, where lovers symbolically buy padlocks and snap them shut on the handrails before tossing the key into the gorge, to clinch them together forever.

What isn’t clear is if some people pay extra for a second key.

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