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Its constructuon started at Nero times and it was finished by Vespasian (69-79 A.D.). Its amin axis measures 149 metres and the transverse one 116 metres. It could contain up to 20.000 spectators. The subterranean structures are in a perfect state of preservation and nowhere else is it possible to understand so clearly how complicated the mechanism required for the hosting of the caged wild beasts was. In 305 A.D., under the emperor Diocletian, seven christian martyrs were condemned to be thrown to the wild beasts in the arena of the amphitheatre; they were Juanarius, Festus and Desiderius from Beneventum, Sosius from Misenum, Proculus, Euthyches and Acutius from Pozzuoli; they were later beheaded near the Solfatara.