Vico Equense: Pizza by the meter

Pizza al metro (also called pizza a metro) è a specialty derived from pizza, typical of the Sorrento Peninsula, later spread nationally and internationally. The recipe was created in Vico Equense by Luigi Dell'Amura in the early 1950s. In the 1930s, in fact, Luigi Dell'Amura, in his bakery in Vico Equense, casually creò the "pizza al metro". The name was suggested by a journalist who was displaced in the Campania town. Subsequently, Gigino opened a restaurant, originally called by the vulgar "da Gigino 'o zuzzuso" today, however, called "Pizza a Metro - l'Università della pizza" and pizza al metro beganò to be marketed, first nationally and later, albeit to a lesser extent, in other parts of Europe. Today, pizza al metro canò be tasted in some pizzerias on the Sorrento Peninsula, particularly in Vico Equense and in another village in the Lattari Mountains called Tramonti.