A pair of American tourists were fined after one of them was caught on video hurling an electric scooter down Rome’s Spanish Steps — causing more than $26,000 worth of damage to the world-famous site.

ROME (AP) — An 80-year-old man drove a compact luxury Mercedes-Benz A Class sedan down the landmark Spanish Steps in Rome early on Tuesday before getting stuck part way down, municipal police said in ...

The city of Rome has banned tourists from sitting on its famous Spanish Steps — and violators can face a fine of up to $280, according to a new report. Police began patrolling the 136 steps on Tuesday ...

Visitors to Rome’s famous Spanish Steps looking to take a load off will need to keep on walking. Earlier this week, city officials made good on their promise to preserve Rome’s historic and cultural ...

ROME — Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn perched there without a care in the 1953 film “Roman Holiday.” But the Spanish Steps in Rome are no longer a place for sitting. Enforcing an ordinance that took ...

Pope Leo XIV got into the Christmas spirit Monday by taking part in a very Roman papal tradition: praying for peace at a ...

ROME (Reuters) - Rome is reopening its famed Spanish Steps after a privately funded restoration but has urged visitors to treat the 18th century staircase with greater respect to prevent it falling ...

ROME (AP) — An 80-year-old man drove a compact luxury Mercedes-Benz A Class sedan down the landmark Spanish Steps in Rome early on Tuesday before getting stuck part way down, municipal police said in ...

FILE - A man walks up the historical Spanish Steps, in Rome, Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file) ROME (AP) — An 80-year-old man drove a compact luxury Mercedes-Benz A Class sedan ...