Museo della Pizza Folliero

The Museo della Pizza Folliero in Aprilia, Italy, showcases the history and culture of pizza through exhibits and guided tours, offering tastings and workshops.

Planning your visit

Pizza is younger and more specific than its global spread suggests: it developed in Naples in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as street food for the urban poor, and the Neapolitan technique — the dough, the fermentation, the wood-fired oven at extreme heat for ninety seconds — is now protected as UNESCO intangible heritage.

The Museo della Pizza Folliero in Aprilia covers that history, the ingredients and their protected designations, the regional variants, and the emigration that carried pizza to the Americas where it was transformed into something quite different before returning.

The practical component is the point: guided tours include tastings, and workshops let visitors work the dough and use the oven, which is the only way to understand why the technique is difficult.

Aprilia sits in Lazio south of Rome, in the Agro Pontino, an area drained and settled in the 1930s. Allow two hours with a tasting. Bookable options include guided tour with tasting. Current availability is shown below.