Buffalo Mozzarella Farms Near Caserta

Mozzarella Experience, Torre Lupara

Azienda Iemma Cesare Giulio, Via Torre Lupara 48, Pastorano. Visitors meet the buffaloes, bottle-feed a calf, make mozzarella and taste the farm's products. The Consortium's directory lists a visit of about three hours between 9am and 4pm, in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Russian or Italian. Book through the form on the Mozzarella Experience website, on +39 0823 871120 or at [email protected]. The neighbouring Agricola Casearia Lupara offers dairy and farm tours with a tasting and lunch, booked through the same service.

Ponterè, Cancello ed Arnone

Strada Provinciale 1, number 29. The Campania Slow Buffalo Tour is an outing through green fields among grazing buffaloes, with stories of the land from the Bourbons to today. The directory lists a one-hour visit with a tasting, daily 9:30am to 1pm, in Italian. Phone 339 4827708.

Le Terre di Don Peppe Diana, Castel Volturno

Via Pietro Pagliuca, a social cooperative of the Libera Terra network with its own dairy. Two-hour visits with a tasting, 8am to 1pm, in Italian. Phone 327 4607345.

Alvignano and Grazzanise

Fattoria Pagliuca at Via San Giacomo 6, Alvignano, offers one-hour hands-on visits between 8am and 7pm in French or Italian (phone 348 1332790). Caseificio Il Casolare, also in Alvignano, and the La Contadina cooperative at Borgo Appio, Grazzanise, serve lunch at the farm. Fattorie Garofalo near Capua does the same.

The Consortium and Its Library

The Consorzio di Tutela Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP has its seat in the Regie Cavallerizze, the royal stables of the Reggia di Caserta, at Via Gasparri 1. Its Mozzateca, a library of books and documents on buffalo farming and mozzarella, can be consulted free by appointment, Monday to Friday 9:00 to 13:30 and 14:00 to 16:30 ([email protected], +39 0823 431828).

Getting There

The farms are spread over the plain between Caserta, Capua and the coast at Castel Volturno, so you need a car. Visits combine well with the Reggia di Caserta itself. For the other great buffalo area, see the farms near Paestum.