The 14 Best Pizza Spots in Amsterdam

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These pizza places are more important than whatever thing you’re doing.Amsterdammers are only human, and therefore love pizza. And despite the abundance of chains like Domino’s, New York Pizza, and Turkish-Italian comfort food hybrids, we’ve got plenty of, well, real pizza in town too. You know what we’re talking about: pastry-style crusts loaded with inventive toppings and crisped to perfection, usually in a wood oven. Here are 14 best places to get a truly Italian pie…

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The story of Luciano Faggiano and his trattoria told by the New York Times

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As told by the New York Times, the amazing story of Luciano Faggiano is now known worldwide: indeed, what happened to the Italian who lives in Lecce, Apulia, is just incredible. As he always wanted to open a trattoria and he actually did. However, something happened one day, when he had an issue to fix the toilet and enlisted his two older sons to help him dig a trench and investigate. He predicted the job would take about a week. As his search for a sewage pipe in 2000 became a family’s thing, one day he found a subterranean world tracing back before the birth of Jesus: a Messapian tomb, a Roman granary, a Franciscan chapel and even etchings from the Knights Templar. This is how what he started as a trattoria became a museum, where relics still turn up today.

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