article_snippet.sent: A Japanese woman has become the latest holidaymaker to face criminal charges in Italy for defacing a historic landmark.
article_snippet.sent: Tourist was stopped by police after A Japanese woman wrote A Japanese woman name and the date on the dome of the Florence Cathedral.
article_snippet.sent: Staff from Museo dell’Operate del Duomo, a museum which houses artefacts from the cathedral, alerted police, who located A Japanese woman and charged A Japanese woman through an interpreter.
article_snippet.sent: a Unesco World Heritage Site’s the second time in four weeks that Italian police have charged a holidaymaker for defacing one of the country’s top landmarks.
article_snippet.sent: In March two American tourists were arrested for carving two American tourists initials into the Colosseum in Rome.
article_snippet.sent: The women, aged 21 and 25, carved a ‘J’ and ‘N’ into a brick wall at a Unesco World Heritage Site and then posed for a selfie.
article_snippet.sent: Other visitors saw what had happened and alerted security, with police charging the pair with ‘aggravated damage on a building of historical and artistic interest’, according to reports.
article_snippet.sent: With millions of visitors every year, Florence has had Florence fair share of problems with misbehaving tourists in recent years.
article_snippet.sent: Last year an American holidaymaker was caught peeing in Piazza Santa Croce, a historic square, just a few months before two visitors were spotted having sex against a wall near Palazzo Vecchio, the town hall, according to The Local.
highlights_snippet.sent: Last month two Americans were charged for defacing the Colosseum .