On 19 March 1994 Father Peppe Diana was murdered by the Camorra in his own church, guilty of writing, with the parish priests of the area, "For love of my people I will not stay silent". Thirty years on, Casal di Principe has turned that wound into its flag: properties confiscated from the clans now host cooperatives that farm and employ, and the house named after Don Diana tells the story of a land's redemption.
The town of 20,828 remains above all what it always was: the heart of the Agro Aversano, the buffalo plain producing one of the world's most celebrated mozzarellas. Buying it here — ideally from a dairy born on confiscated land — is the most concrete way to take sides.
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