The Trevi Fountain tourist walks across the iconic landmark of Rome to fill her bottle with fountain water

A woman was caught walking across Rome’s iconic Trevi Fountain to fill her water bottle in the latest shocking incident of tourists defaced Italian monuments.

In a video circulating on social media, the unidentified woman can be seen standing in the middle of the landmark, letting the water from the fountain fill her bottle.

The woman ignored signs around the fountain advising tourists not to set foot in the water and the video ends with a police officer approaching her.

Video of the July event at the Trevi Fountain comes just weeks after a California man filmed two tourists etching their names into the wall of the Colosseum.

A video circulating on social media shows the unknown woman standing in the middle of the landmark and letting the water from the fountain fill her bottle

At the Trevi Fountain, the woman – dressed in white khakis and a blue top – walks over the rocks as onlookers watch in amazement and disbelief.

The person who filmed the video, Lex Jones, told Storyful that she witnessed the amazing scene and immediately knew she had to record it.

“I was like, wow, this is crazy, so I started filming it,” Jones said.

Jones added that others around her were just as confused given the strict rules and signage regarding the banned action.

“There were signs everywhere saying that’s not allowed,” Jones continued.

The woman is eventually seen walking back from the center of the fountain where she filled up and got out, as if nothing had ever happened.

Just before the video ends, an Italian police officer is seen walking down the stairs towards the woman, eventually making contact.

Jones said the woman was eventually taken.

Before she was escorted from the premises, the woman “kept trying to explain her side and didn’t really understand why she was in trouble.”

With an estimated 10.5 million visitors per year, the Trevi Fountain is one of the largest tourist destinations in all of Italy.

Another major Rome landmark was defaced in June when a man was caught making an inscription in the walls of the Colosseum using a set of keys.

At the Trevi Fountain, the woman – dressed in white khakis and a blue top – walks over the rocks as onlookers watch in amazement and disbelief

Just before the video ends, an Italian police officer is seen walking down the stairs towards the woman, eventually making contact

Ivan’s video was shared on Reddit with the caption: ‘A******e tourist carves name in Colosseum in Rome’

In that recorded incident, the man ‘Ivan + Hayley 23’ can be seen scratching into one of the stones before grinning at the camera.

The California man who videotaped the vandalism, Ryan Lutz, 38, told MailOnline: ‘I couldn’t believe it when I saw what this jerk was doing to the masonry.

“I’m fascinated with history and culture and here was this dumbo** daubing it, which is a crime and I wanted to do something about it,” Lutz said.

“I don’t understand what would possess anyone to do something like this and I really hope they get caught and punished,” he added.

Even that shocking event is just one of many examples of tourists desecrating Italian landmarks.

In August 2018, a group of British tourists decided to take a dip in the Trevi Foundation naked or nearly naked.

One of the two men stripped off his underwear and both frolicked in the water and posed for photos as onlookers looked on in confusion and bewilderment.

Two years earlier, three women in bikinis undressed and jumped into the Fontana dell’Acqua Paola to cool off from the heat in the middle of summer.

In photographs taken by a witness, the women can be seen frolicking under one of the fountain’s jets and laughing.

Romans at the time said their antics showed a lack of respect for the 17th-century monument after they were caught red-handed.

In 2016, three women in bikini stripped naked and jumped into the Fontana dell’Acqua Paola to cool off from the heat in the middle of summer

Another recent and shocking incident occurred in June 2022 when an American tourist caused costly damage to Rome’s iconic Spanish Steps.

The unidentified woman in her late 20s raced down the stairs on an e-scooter, causing some $27,000 in damage.

Police eventually caught up with the woman and a male companion seen in the footage recklessly riding his own scooter down the steps.