Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga

The History
The "Cuore di Paganica" (Paganica's Heart) represents the flagship product of Paganica's cold cuts shops. As it happens for the very famous "culatello", the "cuore" is the biggest muscular part of pork's hindlimbs, it is lacking in pork rinds and bones and is manually salted and enveloped with an external protection (bladder).
Its production is strictly handmade and connected with the tradition of the country families that butchered one or two pigs a year and produced their cold cuts.