American Tourists Fined for Damaging Rome's Spanish Steps with E-Scooter

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Two U.S. tourists visiting Rome, Italy, were fined for causing damage to the city’s Spanish Steps.

The publication reports that the visitors were fined €400 (approximately $430) and were banned from further visiting Rome’s historic city center for six months. The duo remains unnamed.

The incident caused €25,000 (approximately $27,000) in damages,The Guardianreports.

PEOPLE has reached out to the Polizia Roma Capitale and is awaiting response.

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According toCNN, police say the two were stopped at 2:45 a.m. local time last Friday morning.

“A couple of American tourists launched a scooter three times down the steps of Trinità dei Monti, damaging the third-to-last travertine step of the second ramp on the side towards the climb of San Sebastianello,” the city’s Capitoline Superintedency cultural heritage office said in a statement to CNN Thursday.

The city of Rome banned people fromsitting on the historic stepsin 2019 — one of several rules that were created to “guarantee decorum.”

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Other restrictions under the city’s rules include “messy eating” on monuments and tossing objects or climbing into several historic fountains — though tossing coins into the Trevi Fountain is still allowed,according to the city’s website. Failure to adhere to the laws could result in an approximate $450 (€400) fine.

source: people.com