We always say you should treat a pizza like you treat a woman.
Lol.
Keep it in mind.
Remember that.
I guess this is really good training for
when I do finally have sex with a woman.
There you go, positive thinking.
This time, in part two of our season finale,
we learn to make the best pizza in the world,
visit a cemetery with 80,000 skulls,
and witness an ancient Neapolitan blood ritual.
Our journey across seven European countries
by ferry, coach, and train to get to Naples
has officially produced a fifth of the carbon emissions
that a single direct flight from London would have.
We could literally now go back through another seven countries
five times over before producing the same amount of CO2
as one direct flight.
It may take longer and be more expensive,
but ultimately it costs the planet less
and is way more lols.
Napoli is famous internationally for being the birthplace of pizza
and having the doughiest in the world.
So, Neapolitan filmmaker Vicki Fiore is taking us to Sorbillo
in the Centro Storico area of Naples.
Here I am going to show you how to make a Neapolitan pizza.
So, you start from the center.
Then you work your way out.
You give it the old
-slap and stretch? -Yes.
So, we put on the San Marzano tomatoes.
Fresh basil.
Then we put on the mozzarella,
always equally spread.
And then the extra virgin olive oil.
We’re going to cook it, OK?
Welcome to
Before the pandemic,
we made a sustainable guide to traveling Europe
and found out it’s funner without them anyway.
It’s incredible that that was made in, like, 90 seconds.
This man is known as
the best Neapolitan pizza maker in the world, so...
We’ve been taught by literally the best.
Now you are ready, it’s your turn.
So, you should show me what you can do.
She is better.
It’s very elastic.
Like this?
There are holes, so it’s not good.
So, you made it too thin.
No skill.
In the center.
He’s not as good as you.
She is really good.
I will hire her to work in the pizzeria.
Oh my God!
Are you ready? One, two, three.
OK.
Perfect, go on.
Please.
Bye, babe! I’ll see you soon.
Here we go. These are your pizzas.
Does hers not do that?
-No. -No.
Hers is perfect!
We always say you should treat a pizza like you treat a woman.
Lol.
Keep it in mind.
Remember that.
I guess this is really good training for
when I do finally have sex with a woman.
There you go, positive thinking.
What makes the Napoli pizza the best in the world?
Just like... a Brazilian kid might want to play football,
a Neapolitan one wants to make pizzas.
All we use is flour, yeast, salt, and water.
Simple.
We have always made pizza.
My grandparents used to make pizzas.
My father is the 19th of 21 siblings.
The first one is my auntie Esterina, who you can see in this picture.
So, 21 siblings, almost all of them are
Your grandmother must have been pregnant for pretty much 25 years.
There are indeed many people that can only remember her as pregnant.
So, what are the chances of us being taken on as
full-time staff in your kitchen?
Mmm... next question?
The shade.
The shade, wow.
After my totally impotent pizza performance,
Victoria is taking us to the Fontanelle Cemetery,
a 16th century bone house inside a cave on the Materdei side of Naples
filled with dead people.
This is the Fontanelle Cemetery.
This is sick.
Oh my gosh.
Who are all these people?
These people died in the plague in the mid-1600s.
So many people,
so it reduced the city from 400,000 to about 150,000.
Oh my God.
So, a lot of people were buried here and their bones left here,
but they didn’t get a burial.
We call them “anime pezzentelle,”
which would be “souls in purgatory.”
So, the idea is that you’d come here and you’d adopt a skull,
you would pray for their soul to reach paradise,
and in return, they will grant you a wish.
Got a gift. I’ve got a little light,
so I’m going to try and persuade my skull to grant me a wish....
-That’s it. -with this lovely gift.
You’re lighting its way to paradise.
Yeah, exactly.
There really are quite a lot of skulls here.
The estimate is about a million bodies underneath here,
that have been buried since the 1600s till now.
That’s a lot of dead people.
It’s a headless angel.
This is creepy.
The coffins are quite creepy, aren’t they?
We’ve arrived at my skull here,
I’ve called him Magno.
He’s just here, with a little coin on his head.
Some other people have left him some gifts as well,
but that’s my coin on top of him.
We’ll have to find you one as well.
Yeah, please.
I want a lucky one.
Let’s find a smashed-up one that no one else is going to pick,
so they can get into heaven.
This guy here has a train ticket.
At least he’s getting to heaven sustainably.
Right, Magno. I’ll see you later.
Check you soon, Magno.
So, Concetta is a magical skull.
But you need to see her to understand why she’s magical.
Has she got, like, hair or something?
She’s wet.
Urgh.
So, there she is.
She is shiny.
That’s so interesting.
So, why do you reckon she’s sweating and no one else is?
She’s got a blanket, so she’s warmer.
What you think about this guy? He’s a bit lumpy-skulled.
-With the hole in his head? -With the hole in him.
You have to feel a strong attraction to him as well.
-I do. -I do, yeah.
I do, to this one. It’s knobbly. Yeah.
-You like this one? -I love it.
Let’s do a... maybe we do a unisex name.
OK.
Charlie.
-OK. -Yeah?
Charlie sounds good.
We wished for a world without planes.
Little did we know a global pandemic would soon make our wish come true.
His way to paradise will be lit.
Fully lit.
Litty.
Fully lit.
Have a good one.
From one morbid ritual to another,
we’re on our way to attend the ceremony of the liquefaction
of the blood of San Gennaro at the Naples Cathedral,
which happens every September.
So, everyone’s here today at the cathedral, the duomo, of Naples
to witness the miracle of San Gennaro,
whose blood, his coagulated, solid blood, will become liquid.
And if it does that, if it does a miracle,
it means that our city is saved.
If the blood doesn’t,
then that’s going to spell some horrible times for the city ahead.
-Has that ever happened before? -Oh yes, it has. Oh yes, it has.
What was the tragedy, what happened to the city?
Cholera outbreaks, huge earthquakes,
lava eruptions,
Nazis taking over the city.
So how many times has the blood not liquefied?
I think it’s been about four or five times
within the past 100 years.
OK, so it’s very rare that the miracle doesn’t happen.
Yes.
There have been times when it has taken a very long time,
and people have got extremely scared.
I guess if we lived between Mount Vesuvius and a supervolcano,
we might get superstitious too.
The blood is contained in that gold thing
that looks like a magnifying glass.
For some reason, it’s too shy to liquefy in public,
so the priests are taking it to a private room
to watch the miracle happen.
Are they going to go and check on it?
They’re going to go and check on it, and they’re going to bring it out
and show everybody.
So, that was the first step...
-OK. -to the miracle.
It’s liquefied!
Oh, it has?
-It happened quite quickly. -It happened very quickly this year.
But it means that we’re saved
and possibly that good times are ahead.
Doesn’t seem likely, but I guess.
Don’t ruin the moment.
Bye. Thank you so much for showing us around Naples.
Can you believe it? We actually made it.
We did. We made it.
We took a lot of ferries, trains, and buses.
That’s right, yeah. We started in Newcastle.
Day-and-a-night-long ferry to Amsterdam,
where we met Bo and had Pride with Bo,
which was incredible.
Twenty-hour rave train to Budapest,
where we met Andi.
Drank beer in a spa.
Were basically force-fed by an entire Jewish family
and given Pálinka.
We went to Serbia.
We had a sleepover with a vampire.
We drank rakija with some farmers.
Yes, we did.
We milked a donkey’s teat.
We made our way to Croatia.
On the Balkan Express.
A pilgrimage in itself.
Finally jumped in some amazing water in Croatia.
And then took that beautiful ferry
all the way to Italy, where we are now.
-And just look at it. -Yeah.
-How do you feel? -I feel amazing.
I feel like my whole life I’ve taken for granted that
the only way to travel is by plane.
And even now, there’s millions of people, at this very moment,
in the sky, in aeroplanes.
Here’s one of the **** right now.
And you miss out so much of what we saw.
Planes are fast food.
Getting other forms of transport is fine dining.
Exactly. I’m going to be on the tube,
I’m going to be chatting to people and drinking rakija now.
Don’t do that.