Pozzuoli Flavio Amphitheater Full

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© CLAUDIO MORTINI™ Pozzuoli, center of the Campi Flegrei. The Flavio Amphitheater is the third largest arena in the Roman world by size, after those of Rome and Capua, testimony to the extraordinary technique achieved by ancient engineering. It was located near the intersection of roads from Naples, Capua, and Cumae. It has three superimposed orders, four main entrances and twelve secondary ones, and a cavea for about 40,000 spectators. The amphitheater was also the center of urban life: in the galleries under the outer ambulatory there were places of worship and headquarters of many professional associations, known through inscriptions. Suggestive is the visit to the underground areas that show the complex organization of services for the operation of the spectacles. In the arena, the first Christian martyrdoms took place: here, according to the tradition formed between the 5th and 6th centuries, in 305 AD the torture for San Gennaro and his companions was first prepared; the sentence was then carried out at Solfatara.

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