Historical clue formulations

• Forum setting — 2026-09-25
• [See title] — 2026-07-19
• Twin city? — 2026-06-19
• City surrounding Vatican City — 2026-01-05
• World capital that's home to the Spanish Steps — 2025-08-05
• Setting for "Gladiator" — 2025-04-25
• Trevi Fountain locale — 2025-04-07
• Spanish Steps locale — 2025-02-12
• Variety of cooking apple — 2024-12-11
• Only city that entirely surrounds a country — 2024-10-17
• W.H. Auden's "The Fall of ___" — 2024-10-05
• City surrounding Vatican City — 2024-08-26
• City that entirely surrounds another country — 2024-06-16
• Lengthy construction project, per a saying? — 2024-05-22
• Home of the Colosseum — 2024-05-13
• First city to reach a population of one million people, in the second century B.C. — 2024-04-20
• Home to the Colosseum — 2023-12-11
• World capital that "wasn't built in a day" — 2023-11-13
• Terminus of the Appian Way — 2023-11-10
• City where the 41-Across was commissioned — 2023-07-06
• City associated with pasta carbonara — 2023-06-01
• 1990 World Cup final city — 2022-12-30
• Home to Caesar's palace — 2022-04-28
• New York city — 2022-01-29
• Sacking site in A.D. 410 — 2020-12-20
• Spanish Steps city — 2020-11-01
• The Catholic Church, informally — 2020-08-19
• Foreign city that surrounds a country — 2020-08-05
• Long building project, in a cliché — 2019-04-21
• Capital of 19-Across — 2018-11-19
• Home of the Circus Maximus — 2018-10-16
• Where "Tosca" is set — 2018-03-22
• Legend says it arose on Palatine Hill — 2018-02-24
• The Eternal City — 2018-02-13
• "The Bicycle Thief" setting — 2018-02-09
• Setting for Broadway's "The Light in the Piazza" — 2017-11-03
• Part of a so-called "grand tour" — 2017-10-08
• Where all roads lead, it's said — 2017-05-22
• So-called "Caput Mundi" ("Head of the World") — 2017-03-18
• Olympics host after Melbourne — 2016-09-22
• Home to the Colosseum — 2016-06-20
• 1960 Olympics host — 2016-03-17
• "When in ___ ..." — 2016-01-26
• "La Dolce Vita" setting — 2015-08-29
• City founded by a twin, in myth — 2015-08-19
• Setting for Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun" — 2015-05-29
• "The Bicycle Thief" setting — 2014-12-06
• Setting for "Gladiator" — 2014-09-18
• "La Dolce Vita" setting — 2014-04-20
• All roads lead to it, in a saying — 2013-12-16