Local schoolmistress Nada fell in love with a Serbian officer named Relja.

After they committed to each other, Relja went to war in Greece, where, after the collapse of the Serbian Front as a result of the Austro-Hungarian attack of the 6 October 1915, he fell in love with a local woman from Corfu.

[6] Nada never recovered from that devastating blow, and after some time, she died, as a result of her unfortunate love.

[6] After people bind their love with a padlock to the railing, the keys should be thrown down into the river below, so they cannot be found ever again.

It is the White Bridge in Vranje, which was built in the name of an unfulfilled tragic love.