To promote and protect, in Italy and around the world, true Neapolitan pizza, produced and processed according to ancient Neapolitan traditions and customs.

This is the mission of the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana (AVPN), which for more than 40 years has been on the front lines in the defense of pizzerias, pizza makers and the supply chain products linked to this great gastronomic excellence.

The AVPN was founded in June 1984 in Naples by the owners of 17 historic Neapolitan pizzerias at the same time as the collective trademark “Vera Pizza Napoletana” was registered and the related International Regulations were notarized.

The 1984 Disciplinary was adopted, in almost its entirety, in 2004 by the European Community for the STG recognition of the Neapolitan Pizza and became the element on which UNESCO based its recognition of the art of the Neapolitan pizza maker as an intangible heritage of humanity.

The Association now has more than 1100 affiliated pizzerias in 60 countries and is structured in a central headquarters, in Naples, which coordinates the activities of the 6 international delegations (USA, Japan, Brazil, Australia, Latin America and soon Canada) and the brand ambassadors present in Italy (13) and worldwide (22).

For more than 20 years, we have been engaged in the professional training of future pizza makers and entrepreneurs in the industry; about 500 people a year study in directly operated schools around the world (Los Angeles, Montreal, Sao Paulo, Canela, Rancagua, Granada, Frankfurt, Kyoto, Osaka, Istanbul, Sydney and, of course, Naples) to which we add 8 accredited schools in France.