(ANSA) - NAPLES, OCTOBER 20 - Closed by Nas and Asl, this morning in Naples, the Antica Pizzeria Brandi, one of the most renowned historical places in the city where, according to tradition, pizza Margherita was invented in 1889.
According to what has been learned, the authorities during an inspection in August had found hygienic-sanitary deficiencies and imposed prescriptions, with respect to which today the place would have been found in default.
On social media, with a multilingual post also translated into Arabic and Chinese, the Brandi pizzeria announces that it will be closed today and tomorrow "for extraordinary maintenance".
The restaurant was closed at the disposal of the health authorities but internally they are carrying out work to comply with the prescriptions of the Nas and the Asl in order to be able to reopen.
The Antica Pizzeria Brandi is located uphill Sant'Anna diPalazzo, in Chiaia, the city's good living room: inside it is placed a plaque commemorating, in 1989, the 100 years since the creation of the first Margherita pizza in the room.
Reported and received by tourist guides from around the world, the place also boasts the title of "oldest pizzeria in the world", opened in 1760.
In 2017 he launched a special Margherita to celebrate the Unesco recognition attributed to Neapolitan pizza.
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