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.

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

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 ...

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

Police in Rome say an 80-year-old man drove a compact luxury Mercedes A Class sedan part way down the city's landmark Spanish ...

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 driver in Italy has found his car stuck on Rome's famous Spanish Steps. The 81-year-old driver's Mercedes hatchback bounced ...

Elderly man drives down Rome’s historic Spanish steps after mistaking monument for a roadAP Art the cat has moved into a home ...

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

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