
However, the Neapolitan pizza makers didn't give up. Unfortunately, this record was broken by the American town of Fontana, near Los Angeles, which beat Naples with a pizza of 1,930 metres. During the Pizza Village event, they filled the promenade along Lungomare Caracciolo with no less than 1,853.88 metres of dough, achieving the record for the longest pizza in the world. The record made by the pizza makers of Naples was in 2016. They seasoned it with 4,000 kg of tomato, 4,000 kg of mozzarella for pizza, 190 kg of oil, 675 kg of margarine, 250 kg of sea salt, and a total weight of 23,250 kg. Consisting of 5,234 slabs of dough, Ottavia covered an area of around 1,261.65 square metres by 40 metres in diameter. The first attempt was in 2012 in Rome, where they prepared Ottavia, the giant pizza in the world: over 9,000 kg of flour, 100% gluten-free. Pizza is one of Italy's best-loved foods, a feather in our cap that for years has also allowed us to put ourselves to the test in the Guinness Book of Records. We at Visit Italy have selected the ten that left us almost speechless! Italy certainly does not fail to shine within this recognition, especially when breaking culinary records. Having sold more than 100 million copies in 100 different countries, the book itself is a record! Even today, after the demise of the McWhirters, it is still the best-selling copyrighted book in the world and the third best-selling book after the Bible and the Koran. The book was published on 27 August 1955 and was an immediate success. So he turned to Ross and Norris McWhirter twins, who specialised in athletics records, and entrusted them with the first edition of the Guinness Records Book. Sir Hugh thought that these discussions must be commonplace and had the idea of creating a book in which anyone could satisfy their curiosity about records. A discussion arose among those present as to whether or not the golden plover was the fastest bird in Europe. On, during dinner, he thought some golden plovers during their haunting trip had escaped because of their speed.

The idea of collecting every possible kind of record came from Sir Hugh Beaver, the then managing director of the Guinness brewery in Dublin.

The Guinness World Records is a book that has been published annually since 1955 and collects all world records.
