When most people think of Naples, they think of thin-crust pizza baked in a wood-fired brick oven but the fried pizza is remembered by the famous film by Vittorio De Sica, "The Gold of Naples", where a young Sophia Loren, plays the role of a wife of a pizza maker who is selling a fried pizza after the war in Naples and it represented the pizza of the people.
This pizza was born in the Spanish Districts of Naples and it was flash-fried in oil until the filling had melted and the outside was crisp and puffy.
It is made of Tipo 00 extra-fine flour, yeast, water and a pinch of salt, crushed tomatoes, pork scratchings, mozzarella and ricotta.
The dish is so highly regarded that Unesco granted it World Heritage status in 2017.
The pizza fritta is one of the things you can't do without if you come to Naples. You can find it in every alley of the city, but if you want to know the queen of Neapolitan fried pizza, you have to go to the Rione Sanità, the historic district of Totò and the Spagnuolo palace.
Come to Naples and taste a good pizza fritta and visit the best monuments of the city.