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Pietro Di Martino, alias Pierino, died after a heart attack. Just yesterday Mayor Fontanini had given him the seal of the city. He was a pioneer of pizza in Udine and Friuli.
The beginnings
Born in Tramonti, the city of pizzerias, a town located in the valley of the Lattari mountains (Salerno), on November 4, 1948, Di Martino arrives in Friuli in 1970. After a brief experience in Palmanova, he moved to the city where, together with his brothers, he opened the business. His first experience was developed in via Aquileia, then he moved to the area of the train station and, from 1972, to piazzale Cella. The pizzeria-restaurant ‘Pierino’ soon became very popular among public administrators, professionals, athletes, well-known faces of the entertainment world and especially by many citizens to the point that, as of March 20, 1981, decide to move to a larger facility, industrial type, in via Baldasseria Bassa.
Increase
A challenge that might seem risky for a public establishment that makes the location in the town an element of strength, but that Di Martino manages to overcome because the clients who had known him continue to frequent, both for the quality of the restaurant offer and for the kindness of the manager, his humanity and his simplicity. Professional activity continued in the southern part of the city for 33 years, eventually offering employment to dozens of workers. In recent years he has worked with his son Maurizio who directed “In Chiavris”, at the intersection of via Gorizia and Monte Grappa. Pierino, for generations of Udine, is an immediate reference every time reference is made to real pizza, behind which lies the mastery of a wise preparation and also the history and culture of a dish that is one of the Italian excellences. most famous. in the world.
