Created in the 1960s in a local pastry shop, this pizza was initially designed to accompany an apéritif and quickly became popular among Pesaro's inhabitants.

Traditionally, Pizza Rossini consists of a base of tomato purée and mozzarella, followed by the addition of toppings like boiled eggs, ham, and sometimes peas or other vegetables after baking.

Designed to accompany the apéritif,[2] met with success among the inhabitants of Pesaro, to the point of motivating the city's pizza chefs to offer this novelty in their pizzerias; the name of the pizza is a tribute to the composer Gioachino Rossini, who was born in Pesaro.

[3] It was only later, with the advent of "al plate" pizzas, that Rossini also took on these features which are still present on the menus of the province of Pesaro and Urbino.

Over the years, this type of pizza took on more and more variations until it reached the gourmet form offered in large restaurants.