Historic, legendary, forbidden, revolutionary and eternal. A thousand loves ranked, retold and pinned to the map — to discover, feel, watch, read and travel.
Ranked by cultural impact: how many centuries they've been retold, how much art they generated and how many places you can visit today.
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Eternal love carved in marble
The Mughal emperor who, when his favorite wife died bearing their fourteenth child, built the Taj Mahal as her tomb and the grandest declaration of eternal love ever raised.
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2
Love, empire and a double suicide
The queen of Egypt and the Roman general whose romance fused love with imperial politics and ended in a double suicide that sealed the end of an era.
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3
The universal archetype of forbidden love
The teenage lovers of two feuding families whose deaths became the universal archetype of forbidden love.
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6
The elephant and the dove
The two great artists of post-revolutionary Mexico, bound by art and politics and divided by infidelity, who loved and wounded each other until Frida's death.
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7
The Liberator of the Liberator
The Quito-born revolutionary who left her husband to fight and love alongside the Liberator, saved his life in 1828, and earned the title "Liberator of the Liberator."
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8
A hundred sonnets for a secret lover
The secret lover who became wife, nurse and guardian of the Nobel laureate's legacy, and the muse of "100 Love Sonnets" and "The Captain's Verses."
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10
The warrior who became a volcano
The warrior sent to war who receives a false report of his death; the princess dies of grief and he watches over her body forever. The two become Mexico's twin volcanoes.
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11
Fifty-one years, nine months and four days
Florentino's wait for Fermina is fixed by the novel itself: fifty-one years, nine months and four days, until he declares his love again at her husband's funeral.
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To love against the world
Loves that end in tears
To love and change history
The loves literature wrote
Gods, stars and volcanoes
Crowns, thrones and sacrifices
Loves history tried to silence
The original loves of the Americas
Black love as a cultural icon
The romantic mythology of LATAM
Couples crossing worlds and time
Loves that became song
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AmorEterna's definitive ranking: the greatest love stories in history, ordered by cultural impact — how many centuries they've been retold, how much art they generated and how many places you can still visit today.
View rankingFrom Bolívar and Manuela to Frida and Diego, from Selena to Betty and Armando: the love stories Latin America gave the world, and that the world is still discovering.
View rankingFeuding families, unjust laws, barriers of class and religion. These loves were born against the world — and that is why they became legend.
View rankingLatin America's living romantic mythology: the telenovela couples millions of us watched fall in love, who became archetypes of love itself.
View rankingThe greatest love stories of all time — organized to discover, feel, watch, read and travel.
By AmorEterna's cultural-impact ranking, Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal: the Mughal emperor who built the Taj Mahal as his wife's tomb and a declaration of eternal love. It is the most recognized monument to love on earth.
AmorEterna is the archive of the greatest love stories in history: historic, legendary, literary, telenovela, anime, Indigenous, queer and revolutionary. Every story is ranked, retold and pinned to places you can visit.
Among the greatest are Simón Bolívar and Manuela Sáenz, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Pablo Neruda and Matilde Urrutia, Selena and Chris Pérez, the legend of Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl, and telenovela couples like Betty and Armando.