I Love Every little thing About ‘Emily in Paris’ Besides Her Vacationer Blunder in Rome

Look, there’s nothing I stay up for greater than brand-new episodes of “Emily in Paris.” The whole present is a spectacle of trend and frivolity and is a present I may watch over and over. Nevertheless, in season 4, episode 9, Emily makes one main mistake I merely cannot overlook. (Warning: There are very small spoilers forward, so for those who’re not caught up and do not need to know even the tiniest particulars of what is to come back, perhaps save this story for after you binge-watch.) 

Within the episode, Emily makes her solution to Rome to go to her new love curiosity, Marcello, on his dwelling turf. The 2 take a tour across the metropolis, exploring a few of its best websites, together with the Colosseum and the Trevi Fountain, the place Emily tosses a coin over her shoulder into the water, as each traveler actually ought to do too.

Following a fast pit cease for wine and a snack, Emily and Marcello make their solution to the Spanish Steps — and that is the place the difficulty begins. You see, the duo takes a seat on the steps, which is strictly forbidden. 

“Guests should not allowed to sit down on the steps. They’re additionally forbidden to eat or write on the steps,” Antonio Di Maggio, director of the municipal police of Rome, shared in an announcement on the time. “Moreover, some behaviors are additionally banned, similar to promoting items with out permission or dressing up as an historic Roman officer to take photos with vacationers. We’re right here to make folks observe these guidelines.”

In 2019, authorities in Rome banned sitting on the steps after they mentioned too many vacationers had been spending too lengthy stress-free on them, obstructing others from shifting freely up and down the well-known stairs. And it is not simply that officers will shoo you away — sitting on the steps may incur a fantastic of 250 Euros (about $270) or as much as 400 Euros ($443) if the steps are discovered to be broken by your sitting, in accordance with CBC. 

This is not the one act that may get you in hassle in Rome. In 2019, authorities additionally handed different measures to guard monuments, together with banning consuming “messy” meals round historic websites. So no pizza, pasta, or gelato on the Spanish Steps or close to the Trevi Fountain.

You additionally completely can not drag or “bounce” a suitcase up or down the steps, as this, too, was banned in 2019. As Virginia Raggi, the mayor of Rome on the time acknowledged: “Rome is, and all the time will likely be, welcoming, however that doesn’t imply tolerating dangerous conduct and harm being carried out to our metropolis.”

Fortunately for Emily, she has a hunky new Italian beau to hold her baggage for her and hand-feed her pasta (critically) in a extra acceptable setting.