Where it all began: floured hands, live embers, the scent of home.
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La Penzana (Orezzo)
Pizza number one: probably lopsided. Definitely memorable.
The Golden (Tomato) Thread
Pizzameter
Since 1989, every pizza baked adds 33 cm to our golden (tomato) thread.
Tarcisio used to say: "We'll make it all the way to Naples."
Who's eating?
All Clients — 300 pizzas per week, the whole oven since 1989.
Bruno — loyal customer, 5 pizzas per week since 1989.
Merelli Family — 3 people × 3 pizzas/week, then +1 person for each child after age 4.
Bruno — loyal customer, 5 pizzas per week since 1989.
Merelli Family — 3 people × 3 pizzas/week, then +1 person for each child after age 4.
0.0 km travelled 582,600
pizzas baked in total
1989 → 2026 years of tradition
5.1 km every year
33 cm per pizza
The first thousand.
A thousand times the dough took shape, a thousand times the oven did its duty.
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1,000 Pizzas
Line them up: 330 metres of pizza. Almost a lap of the track.
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Gazzaniga
Three kilometres of pizza lined up: enough to get noticed in the valley.
Only one question here: are you bringing more?
Ten thousand pizzas mean ten thousand evenings, ten thousand tables, ten thousand different stories.
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10,000 Pizzas
At this point you can smell it from Gazzaniga.
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Bergamo — Città Alta
The thread reaches the upper town and climbs quietly between stone and flour.
A roundabout of pizza in Piazza Vecchia? Almost.
Fifty thousand pizzas with 100g of mozzarella each.
Total: 5 tonnes.
The weight of an African elephant.
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1 Elephant of Mozzarella
Jumbo would approve.
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Michele is born
Here comes the firstborn.
The first Merelli of the new generation. The oven has an heir.
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Luca is born
That was quick...
Two in two years. The family doesn't waste time.
A number you can't visualise, you feel it: in the heat of the oven, in the family's hands.
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100,000 Pizzas
Enough to feed all of Bergamo. Twice.
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The Pizza Marathon
A symbolic marathon made of stretched dough and evenings that end late.
No running shoes needed: just a peel, an oven, and persistence.
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Alessandro is born
Good things come in threes. He'll be the singer.
Three brothers, three personalities, one favourite pizza: Margherita.
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Milan — The Duomo
Under the Madonnina the thread stays simple: good pizza, no pretence.
In Milan they ask if it's gourmet. In Orezzo it just has to be delicious.
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Giacomo is born
Four — almost enough for five-a-side. They never stop... baking pizzas.
Number four arrives and the table gets longer.
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Chiara is born
Finally, the princess!
Five Merellis. The squad is complete.
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Piacenza
The road stretches on and the journey begins to speak different cuisines.
Between cured meats and pizza, the connection is instant.
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Parma
The golden thread continues without changing accent: artisanal, direct, sincere.
Verdi composed operas. We compose successful evenings.
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Bologna — The Two Towers
It crosses the heart of Italy, holding tradition and real hunger together.
Bologna has tortellini. We bring the Diavola. Even.
A million pizzas.
At that point the golden thread is no longer a thread, it's a highway.
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1,000,000 Pizzas
A million reasons to come back to Orezzo.
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Florence — Ponte Vecchio
Renaissance and pizza share one gift: they never get old.
Leonardo would have designed a dough-rolling machine.
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Siena — Piazza del Campo
Every pizza keeps the journey's rhythm: slow, precise, relentless.
The Palio is lightning fast. Rising dough is not, and that's fine.
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Orvieto
At this point the journey seems impossible only to those who don't know persistence.
Five hundred kilometres of pizza is a measure that deserves respect.
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Rome — The Colosseum
The capital watches, the oven continues, the course doesn't change.
The crowd gives the thumbs up: Margherita saves the day.
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Cassino — Montecassino
Between memory and silence the golden thread stays lit and moves forward.
Bread, pizza, patience: some things always go well together.
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Caserta — The Royal Palace
A palace fit for kings and a pizza for everyone: perfect balance.
The Palace has a thousand rooms. We just need the right oven.
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Aversa
The last emotional climb before the symbolic homeland of pizza.
Here the tension rises like well-made dough.
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Naples — Via dei Tribunali
The homeland of pizza is right there: Tarcisio saw it coming.
Getting there with a thread of pizzas is practical poetry.
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Naples — Year 2145
607.7 km to go. Every pizza shortens the journey by 33 cm.
And after Naples?
The oven stays on. The thread continues.
The entire boot, covered in dough.
From Orezzo to Lampedusa and back.
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Pizza Tour of Italy
The boot has never been this tasty.
At this point, the yeast deserves a passport.
Enough mozzarella to circle the equator.
The weight? Don't ask.
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Equator of Mozzarella
The equator is hot. Just like the oven.
Tarcisio knew it: there's no limit to the dough.
16,666,667 pizzas with 150ml of sauce each.
An entire Olympic swimming pool.
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1 Olympic Pool of Tomato Sauce
Diving into tomato sauce: as kids we all dreamed of it.
Pizza knows no borders. Only frontiers to cross.
Ten thousand kilometres of golden thread.
The oven knows no time zone.
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From Orezzo to Tokyo
In Japan pizza is art. In Orezzo too.
Every pizza brings us closer. To what? To everything.
40,075 km.
The golden thread wraps around the planet.
At that point, we're legend.
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Around the World
Tarcisio didn't stop at borders. Neither do we.
Tarcisio didn't stop at borders. Neither do we.
The golden (tomato) thread never ends. Every pizza adds 33 cm.
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