A Polish tourist must pay a 160-euro (225-dollar) fine after he got a bit too close to one of the fountains in the Italian city of Florence, police said Monday.
"The officers spotted him as he was preparing to climb the fountain. But they arrived in time to make him get down," a police official told AFP.
When the police had the would-be mountaineer on firm ground, he claimed he was too hot and simply wanted to cool off in the famous Fountain of Neptune, just a short distance from Michelangelo's David and the Uffizi Gallery.
"It happens quite often that people want to swim in this fountain, but usually we can catch them before anything happens," the official said.
The fountain, made up of various marble statues, has suffered a lot of damage since it was built in the 16th century.
The last act of vandalism occurred in August 2005 when a young man tried to climb the main statue and snapped off a hand.
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