National and regional parks in Italy
The national parks of Italy are protected natural areas terrestrial, marine, fluvial or lacustrine, which contain one or more intact ecosystems (or only partially altered by anthropic interventions) and/or one or more physical, geological , geomorphological , biological formations of national and international interest, for naturalistic, scientific, cultural, aesthetic, educational, or recreational values, such as to justify the intervention of the State for their conservation.
There are 25 Italian national parks registered on the Official List of Protected Natural Areas (EUAP), and they together cover an area of over 16,000 km2 (6,200 sq mi), which corresponds to approximately 5.3% of the Italian national territory.[ 1] The parks are managed by the Ministry of the Environment based in Rome (Italian : Ministero dell'Ambiente ).[ 2]
List of Italian national parks [ edit ]
Parks established before World War II [ edit ]
Name
Regions
Area
High Point
Elevation
Established
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Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise [ 3]
Abruzzo , Lazio , Molise
506.83 km2 (195.69 sq mi)
Monte Petroso
2,249 m (7,379 ft)
1923
Circeo [ 4]
Lazio
84.40 km2 (32.59 sq mi)
Monte Circeo
541 m (1,775 ft)
1934
Gran Paradiso [ 5]
Valle d'Aosta , Piedmont
700.00 km2 (270.27 sq mi)
Gran Paradiso
4,061 m (13,323 ft)
1922
Stelvio [ 6]
Lombardy , Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
1,307.00 km2 (504.64 sq mi)
Cima Ortles
3,905 m (12,812 ft)
1935
Parks established from the post-war period up to the 1980s [ edit ]
Name
Regions
Area
High Point
Elevation
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Aspromonte [ 7]
Calabria
760.53 km2 (293.64 sq mi)
Montalto
1,955 m (6,414 ft)
1989
Dolomiti Bellunesi [ 8]
Veneto
31.51 km2 (12.17 sq mi)
Monte Pavione
2,335 m (7,661 ft)
1988
Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, and Campigna [ 9]
Emilia-Romagna , Tuscany
364.00 km2 (140.54 sq mi)
Monte Falterona
1,645 m (5,397 ft)
1989
Pollino [ 10]
Basilicata , Calabria
1,925.65 km2 (743.50 sq mi)
Sierra Dolcedorme
2,267 m (7,438 ft)
1988
Parks established in the 1990s [ edit ]
Name
Regions
Area
High Point
Elevation
Established
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Archipelago of La Maddalena [ 11]
Sardinia
201.46 km2 (77.78 sq mi)
Punta Tejalone, Caprera [ 12]
212 m (696 ft)
1994
Asinara [ 13]
Sardinia
269.60 km2 (104.09 sq mi)
Punta Scomunica
408 m (1,339 ft)
1997
Cilento, Vallo di Diano, and Alburni [ 14]
Campania
1,810.48 km2 (699.03 sq mi)
Monte Cervati
1,898 m (6,227 ft)
1991
Cinque Terre [ 15]
Liguria
38.60 km2 (14.90 sq mi)
Monte (Mai-)Pertuso[ 16]
820 m (2,690 ft)
1999
Gargano [ 17]
Apulia
1,211.18 km2 (467.64 sq mi)
Monte Calvo[ 18]
1,065 m (3,494 ft)
1991
Gennargentu [ 19]
Sardinia
730.00 km2 (281.85 sq mi)
Punta La Marmora
1,834 m (6,017 ft)
1998
Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga [ 20]
Marche , Abruzzo , Lazio
1,413.31 km2 (545.68 sq mi)
Corno Grande
2,912 m (9,554 ft)
1991
Majella [ 21]
Abruzzo
704.00 km2 (271.82 sq mi)
Monte Amaro
2,793 m (9,163 ft)
1991
Sibillini Mountains [ 22]
Marche , Umbria
697.22 km2 (269.20 sq mi)
Monte Vettore
2,476 m (8,123 ft)
1988
Tuscan Archipelago [ 23]
Tuscany
746.53 km2 (288.24 sq mi)
Monte Capanne on Elba in the Tuscan Archipelago
1,018 m (3,340 ft)
1989
Val Grande [ 24]
Piedmont
145.98 km2 (56.36 sq mi)
Monte Togano
2,295 m (7,530 ft)
1991
Vesuvius [ 25]
Campania
72.59 km2 (28.03 sq mi)
Great Cone
1,281 m (4,203 ft)
1991
Parks established in the 2000s [ edit ]
Parks established in 2010s [ edit ]
Name
Regions
Area
High Point
Elevation
Established
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Island of Pantelleria
Sicily
66.4 km2 (25.6 sq mi)
Montagna Grande
836 m (2,743 ft)
2016
"Italia" (in Italian). ENIT - Italian Government Tourist Board. Archived from the original on 2009-04-27.
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