The
Flavio amphitheatre, after the Colosseum and the amphitheatre in Capua, is the
biggest in Italy. It was probably constructed at the time of Nero and was the
seat of fantastic games organised in honour of Tiridate, king of Armenia; it saw
the martyrdom of St.Gennaro and St.Procolo, becoming respectively the Patron
Saints of Naples and Pozzuoli. The excavation, starting in 1839, was completed
in 1947 under the direction of the archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri.
The
Flavio amphitheatre- G. Magri and G. Volpato- XV111 century