It’s happening again. We're only in early February, but there's already a solid contender for this year’s “Worst Actor In an Italian Tourist Role” award. In case you missed our story, an American in Florence drove his rental car across the medieval and—most importantly in this context—pedestrian-only Ponte Vecchio Bridge while looking for a parking spot.
He was fined €500 (around $540) and sent on his way. In 2022, we saw a tourist take his Maserati for a spin down the Spanish Steps in Rome, a shocking incident which was then quickly followed by someone flinging a scooter down the famous staircase, taking a chunk out of it along the way.
