Answer: ROME
ROME is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 224 times.
Referring Clues:
- Where the Vatican is
 - Site of St. Peter's
 - "Spartacus" setting
 - ___ Beauty (apple variety)
 - Setting for "Don Pasquale"
 - "Coriolanus" setting
 - City on seven hills
 - "Don Pasquale" setting
 - Tarpeian Rock's location
 - Palatine Hill site
 - Vatican's locale
 - "La Dolce Vita" setting
 - City on the Tiber
 - 1960 Olympics site
 - Center of Catholicism
 - Seven Hills site
 - The Eternal City
 - Seven Hills city
 - Forum city
 - "Gladiator" setting
 - Santa Maria Maggiore locale
 - "When in ___ ..."
 - City of seven hills
 - Trevi Fountain locale
 - Spanish Steps city
 - Center of a former empire
 - Vatican's home
 - __ Beauty (baking apple)
 - Trevi Fountain city
 - The Vatican's home
 - See 62-Across
 - Capitoline Museums locale
 - See 40-Across
 - Site of a gay pride festival denounced by the Pope
 - All roads lead to this, they say
 - Where 51-Down was martyred
 - City containing a country
 - "Julius Caesar" setting
 - It wasn't built in a day
 - All roads lead to ___
 - Terminus of all roads?
 - "The Eternal City"
 - ___ Beauty (apple type)
 - City where fettuccine Alfredo was first served
 - Where Remus was killed
 - Where Ali won a gold medal
 - Baths of Caracalla site
 - Home of the Pantheon
 - Ancient empire
 - Foe of Carthage
 - City in Italy
 - Apple variety
 - Colosseum site
 - "City of Seven Hills"
 - Site of the 1960 Summer Olympics
 - Vatican City surrounder
 - Where Cassius Clay won Olympic gold
 - New York city
 - With 26-Across, Vatican City surrounder
 - Where "Tosca" takes place
 - Georgia city built on seven hills
 - "I, Claudius" setting
 - HBO series set in the first century B.C.
 - 1960 Summer Olympics site
 - Home of the Circus Maximus
 - European tourist mecca
 - Where all roads lead?
 - Forum site
 - Julius Caesar's city
 - Capital of 59 Across
 - City surrounding the Vatican
 - Italian capital
 - Where da Vinci Airport is
 - Capital of Italy
 - Italy's capital
 - Hilly place
 - It surrounds the Vatican
 - Caesar's capital
 - Trevi Fountain site
 - Kind of apple
 - Punic Wars victor
 - ''When in ___, do ...''
 - ". . . the grandeur that was ___"
 - Eternal city
 - The Tiber runs through it
 - City of the Caesars
 - "The Fountains of ___" (Respighi)
 - Resphigi's city
 - Apple beauty
 - Capital on the Tiber
 - Pantheon site
 - City around the Vatican
 - Pantheon's place
 - Colosseum city
 - Seat of Georgia's Floyd County
 - Home of the Arch of Constantine
 - Setting for "Coriolanus"
 - The City of Seven Hills
 - Capital surrounding Vatican City
 - Italy%C2%92s capital
 - Italys capital
 - "When in ___, do ..."
 - Benedict's bishopric
 - "... the grandeur that was ___"
 - Italian metropolis
 - Spanish Steps setting
 - Where Nero fiddled around?
 - 1960 Olympics host
 - Aeneas's city
 - Colosseum setting
 - Vatican City site
 - Senate setting
 - "Quo Vadis" setting
 - 66-Across's domain
 - Famously hilly city
 - 1960 Olympics city
 - European capital
 - Vatican surrounder
 - Vatican setting
 - 'When in ___, ...'
 - Appian Way terminus
 - 'The Eternal City'
 - Georgia city
 - Site of seven hills
 - Hilly city
 - Italian city
 - Cloaca Maxima setting
 - Vatican locale
 - The Vatican's vicinity
 - Baths of Diocletian location
 - Vatican's only neighbor
 - Sinatra's Tony
 - Pantheon setting
 - City near Utica
 - Terminus for all roads, in a saying
 - City of Caesars
 - Vatican's surroundings
 - Site of the 1960 Summer Games
 - Pantheon locale
 - City associated with Francis
 - Jim of sports radio
 - Chariot race locale
 - World capital
 - Circus Maximus setting
 - All roads lead to it, in a saying
 - Where all roads are said to lead
 - Pantheon's locale
 - Where all roads lead
 - Setting for "Gladiator"
 - Long-term building project, so it's said
 - Villa Borghese gardens locale
 - Colosseum's locale
 - City in New York
 - "The Bicycle Thief" setting
 - Spanish Steps site
 - Vatican City setting
 - Vatican site
 - Powerful empire, once
 - Setting for Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun"
 - Pantheon's city
 - City founded by a twin, in myth
 - "Ben-Hur" setting
 - Vatican venue
 - Home to the Colosseum
 - Olympics host after Melbourne
 - "Gladiator" city
 - World metropolis
 - So-called "Caput Mundi" ("Head of the World")
 - Where all roads lead, it's said
 - Surrounder of the Vatican
 - Part of a so-called "grand tour"
 - Setting for Broadway's "The Light in the Piazza"
 - Cooking apple named for an Ohio township
 - Colosseum locale
 - Legend says it arose on Palatine Hill
 - Tony ___, Sinatra role
 - Where "Tosca" is set
 - Harold of tin pan alley
 - Songwriter Harold
 - Europe's 'Eternal City'
 - Circus Maximus locale
 - Capital of 19-Across
 - Spanish Steps locale
 - Old senate setting
 - Capital of two states, it's said
 - "picket fence" city
 - Tiber River capital
 - Long building project, in a cliché
 - 2,772-year-old city
 - Capital of Italy's Lazio region
 - Where all roads lead, in a saying
 - Foreign city that surrounds a country
 - 26-Down's city
 - The Catholic Church, informally
 - Capital where "all roads lead"
 - Sacking site in A.D. 410
 - "___ wasn't built in a day"
 - Sports radio host Jim
 - Home to Caesar's palace
 - Non-Spanish city with Spanish Steps
 - Capital city home to the Pantheon
 - 1990 World Cup final city
 - "When in ___ ... "
 - City associated with pasta carbonara
 - City where the 41-Across was commissioned
 - Vatican's environs
 - Terminus of the Appian Way
 - World capital that "wasn't built in a day"
 - Place to emulate the locals, proverbially
 - "To ___ With Love"
 - First city to reach a population of one million people, in the second century B.C.
 - Home of the Colosseum
 - Lengthy construction project, per a saying?
 - City that entirely surrounds another country
 - Where all roads lead, proverbially
 - City surrounding Vatican City
 - City that surrounds Vatican City
 - W.H. Auden's "The Fall of ___"
 - Only city that entirely surrounds a country
 - Capital city near Bracciano
 - City with a country within its borders
 - Variety of cooking apple
 - Trevi Fountain's city
 - World capital that's home to the Spanish Steps
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - October 31, 2025
 - LA Times - October 29, 2025
 - LA Times - September 24, 2025
 - New York Times - August 05, 2025
 - USA Today - April 29, 2025
 - New York Times - April 25, 2025
 - New York Times - April 07, 2025
 - New York Times - February 12, 2025
 - New York Times - December 11, 2024
 - LA Times - November 26, 2024
 - LA Times - November 18, 2024
 - USA Today - October 21, 2024
 - New York Times - October 17, 2024
 - New York Times - October 05, 2024
 - LA Times - September 23, 2024
 - New York Times - August 26, 2024
 - LA Times - July 07, 2024
 - New York Times - June 16, 2024
 - New York Times - May 22, 2024
 - New York Times - May 13, 2024
 
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