Moon Gate -- Front St., Hamilton BM - Urban Legends and Superstitions on Waymarking.com

There are Moon Gates all over Bermuda, mostly on private sidewalks and entries to homes. However, there are a few that are publicly accessible. This waymarked moon gate is located on Front Street near

The sign next to the gate reads as follows:

"Legend says that honeymooners should walk through the moon gate and make a wish! If you are not a honeymooner, make a wish anyway!"

Blasterz did :)

More from the Bermuda online website: (visit link)

"Legend has it that people who walk through a Bermuda Moongate, especially but not solely young lovers and honeymooners, are blessed with good luck. The real Oriental origin of the Moongate was almost completely lost locally when the former gardener of the Duke of Westminster in the United Kingdom was employed to lay out the grounds of the (former) Bermudiana Hotel in the 1920s being built at that time by the Furness Withy shipping group. This was the first of the Bermuda Moongates in hotel properties. This is not Bermudian originally but Chinese, many centuries old. (In July 2004, a Japanese garden with a structure almost identical to what in Bermuda is called a moongate, won a Silver Gilt prize at the Royal Horticultural Society show at Tatton Garden in the UK). The first plan for one in Bermuda was brought from a Chinese garden in 1860 by a local sea captain. He drew the design of a circular, ornamental wooden gateway to a garden or place of inner repose and, once back in Bermuda, built one of his own. It was copied. It has since been adopted by Bermuda as a national symbol. There are now many in Bermuda. Bermuda versions are built of Bermuda stone and often but not always used as an entrance to a garden, such as at the Bermuda Botanical Gardens. There is also a New England version, in granite, of the Chinese design, as the attached photograph shows. Unfortunately, Bermuda Moongates do not export well as Bermuda stone is very heavy.

Bermuda Moongate song. Composer Ralph Blane, from the USA, co-wrote the song "Step Though a Moongate." Once there was a 45 rpm record of the song, with Ralph singing. On the flip side of the record is "Bermuda Blue." One of his best known compositions was "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and other songs of the movie "Meet Me In St. Louis." A local version of Step Through a Moongate, sung years ago by Gene and Pinky Steede, confirms the Oriental origin of the Bermuda Moongate in the words of the song."

Additional Requirement?: kiss or make a wish under the moon gate with your sweetie What's the Real Story?: The moon gates originated in China Website Source: [Web Link]

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