Other solution, provided from @mmd, is to use result of fist search via id of element as area, example:
rel(51490);map_to_area->.region;
node(area.region)[place="city"];
out;
Other solution, provided from @mmd, is to use result of fist search via id of element as area, example:
rel(51490);map_to_area->.region;
node(area.region)[place="city"];
out;