The Perfect Pizza Margherita

Although extremely good pizzas or ‘pizze’ can be found outside of Naples, you should keep this to yourself when you visit the city.

According to tradition, a real pizza must use a base of flour mixed with water from the ‘Serino‘ which passes through Naples, be sprinkled with pure olive oil from the trees of the Campania coast or the Cilento National Park and be colored with mature tomatoesgrown between rivers ‘Sebeto’ and ‘Sele’.

It should also be covered in mozzarella from Mondragone, flavored with basil grown only on the ‘window sills of Napoli’ and finally cooked in an open oven as big as a room and burning local wood.

Check the authenticity of your pizza as the waiter takes your order.

Our man in the know has prepared a list of the top pizzeria establishments in Naples. In other words, the best places to sample the traditional Neapolitan pizza in its place of origin.

In no particular order, the list is something like this:

• Acunzo Vomero, via Cimarosa 60
• Pizzeria Gorizia Vomero, Via A. Albini 18/20
• Da Ettore Via Santa Lucia, 56
• Di Napoli Via Marca’Antonio, 21. Fuorigrotta
• La Notizia Via Caravaggio, 53-55
• Lombardi Via Foria, 12
• Mattozzi Via Filangieri, 16
• Pellone Via Nazionale 93
• Cafasso Via Giulio Cesare, 156-158
• Di Matteo Via dei Tribunali, 94

Day 2 – Full Day Athens Tour

Summer evenings tend to be very rewarding. As strong as the sun may get on a summer afternoon, the low levels of atmospheric humidity in most areas of the country prevent the air from trapping much heat, and temperatures tend to dip to very pleasant levels in the evenings. But even during midday, high temperatures actually tend to be quite comfortable as long as the time is not spent doing a lot of walking or other physical activity.

Day 3 – Fly to Corfu

While the Mediterranean climate characterizes most of the country, there are two other climate systems that are present. One is the cool Alpine climate which is found on mountainous areas of the country’s interior, including many high-altitude valleys. Another system is the Continental climate found on the interiors of north-central and northeastern Greece, and gives those areas very cold winters and warm, relatively humid summers.

Day 4 – Fly Back Home

Athens’ Elefthérios Venizélos International Airport located near the Athens suburb of Spáta is the country’s largest, busiest airport and main hub, handling over 15 million passengers annually as of 2006. Other major international airports in terms of passenger traffic are, in order of passengers served per year, Heraklion (Nikos Kazantzákis Int’l), Thessaloniki (Makedonia Int’l), Rhodes (Diagóras), and Corfu (Ioánnis Kapodístrias).

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