About 10,000 people every day crowded more than one hundred pizzerias members of AVPN
in Italy and in the rest of the world, 2,000 children and adults attended the
workshops on pizza in the laboratory set up in Piazza Dante, hundreds Neapolitans and tourists celebrated the flash mob "I Love true
Neapolitan pizza" in Piazza Plebiscito.
These numbers represent for the True Neapolitan Pizza Association the successful conclusion of the Pizzafestival first edition. The real proof that is possible to connect taste, entertainment and culture.
"It was the best way to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Association - says the president of Avpn Antonio Peace – we choose to celebrate in the pizzerias that day after day continue the tradition of the true Neapolitan pizza.
A pizza verace more and more renowned and appreciated abroad as evidenced by the thousands of gueststhat during the Pizzafestival crowded the pizzerias members all over the world, from New York to Seattle, from Sao Paulo to Seoul.
"We think - says the General manager of Avpn Stefano Auricchio – that the first Pizzafestival helped the culture of pizza to grow in Naples and throughout the world. That was our purpose. This success encourages us now to carry on the adventure of Pizzafestival which will become a regular annual event in Naples and in hundreds of pizzerias associated abroad.”
