E!State Liberi – Field at the Farm of Legality

A week of civil commitment on confiscated property

The E!State Liberi field at the Fattoria della Legalità in Isola del Piano, a small municipality in the hinterland of the Province of Pesaro and Urbino (Marche), is a volunteer and training experience that attracts people from all over Italy every summer. It is organized by Libera. Associations, names, and numbers against the mafia, the network founded by Don Luigi Ciotti that promotes commitment camps on properties seized from organized crime and returned to the community.

Confiscated property: from the mafia to the community

The Fattoria della Legalità is located in the Castelgagliardo area, on a property of over four hectares of land with two buildings, definitively confiscated in 2006 from an entrepreneur linked to a criminal organization active in Northern Italy. Entrusted by the Municipality of Isola del Piano to a volunteer association in collaboration with Libera, since 2012 it has become the symbolic place of social anti-mafia efforts in the Province of Pesaro. The faces of Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino, and Peppino Impastato stand out on the farm's walls, while the Garden of Memory and the Library of Legality welcome schools, young people, and visitors throughout the year.

What it means to participate in the field

E!State Liberi fields are not holidays: they are days marked by shared work and reflection. In Isola del Piano, participants are involved in the maintenance of the confiscated property and contribute concretely to its daily management, in a rural setting that becomes an educational tool itself. Alongside manual labor, there are workshops, training sessions, discussions on social and political issues, storytelling, and testimonies from experts and protagonists of the anti-mafia movement.

A symbolic value for the Marche region

In a region that is not historically a land of mafia, the Fattoria della Legalità has a special significance: it demonstrates that the culture of legality—understood as responsibility, participation, cooperation, and solidarity—concerns every territory. The field is aimed at adults over 18 and is part of Libera's national program, which involves thousands of volunteers every summer on dozens of confiscated properties across Italy.

• Where: Fattoria della Legalità, Castelgagliardo area, Isola del Piano (PU)
• Organized by: Libera, in collaboration with the local association managing the property
• For whom: adult volunteers (over 18)
• Registration: on the official Libera website, in the E!State Liberi section