Kissing Bench

Bonds of a lifetime often bloom during the college years and Florida State offers a sentimental landmark where young couples are known to embrace their love. Affectionately known as the Kissing Bench the granite seat is just cozy enough for two. According to folktale, a long-ago university employee kissed his special girl on this very bench and the two ended up as husband and wife. The fable suggests if you bring a lover to the bench and share a kiss with them, your fates will become forever entwined. So reads the inscription…“If this bench could talk/oh the stories it would tell/of kisses young and old/if you sit, beware the spell.”