An 80-year-old man has told police he was “wrong” to drive down Rome’s famed Spanish Steps, after firefighters had to recover his vehicle from the landmark in the early hours of Tuesday.

Rome is arguably one of the richest cities in the world when it comes to ancient and historic monuments and landmarks, leaving many tourists with the conundrum over which sites to hit when there.

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