Police in Rome said the driver in his 80s was at a loss to explain how he had wound up driving down the famed Spanish Steps.

Before dawn on Tuesday, an 80-year-old Italian man behind the wheel of a Mercedes A-Class tried to navigate the sedan down ...

Nobody was injured and the Italian police did not announce any damage to the monument.

An 80-year-old Italian man drove his car down the Spanish Steps early on June 17. No injuries or damage to the steps were ...

An 80-year-old man has told police he was “wrong” to drive down Rome’s famed Spanish Steps, after firefighters had to recover ...

In a scene straight out of The Italian Job , an elderly man in Rome stunned onlookers by driving his small hatchback partway ...

Footage provided by police shows the 80-year-old man inching down the famed 135-step staircase before getting stuck halfway down. The car was later hoisted out by crane.

A man in his 80s drove a car down the landmark Spanish Steps in Rome at dawn on June 17, 2025, before getting stuck, the city ...

A man accidentally drove his car down the Spanish Steps in Rome, a historical monument that is highly vulnerable to damage by ...

The compact sedan down the landmark in Rome at dawn on Tuesday before getting stuck part way down, municipal police said in a ...

An 80-year-old man drove a compact luxury Mercedes-Benz A Class sedan down the landmark Spanish Steps in Rome early on ...

An 80-year-old man on his way to work mistakenly drove his Mercedes-Benz sedan down Rome's famous Spanish Steps.