The 81-year-old claimed to have taken a wrong turn onto one of Rome's greatest, and most protected, monuments.

An Italian man on his way to work in Rome mistakenly took a wrong turn and tried to drive down the world-famous Spanish Steps ...

An 81-year-old man drove his car down the landmark Spanish Steps in Rome before getting stuck on the way down. One of Italy's ...

A bungling driver became stuck while trying to drive down the historic Spanish Steps in Italy. The pensioner, 80, was driving ...

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

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

The moment an 81-year-old man attempted to drive down Rome's famous Spanish Steps before getting stuck has been caught on camera.

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

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

Authorities were able to remove the car, but to avoid damaging the Steps, which were first built back in the 1720s, they ...