List of national parks of Italy

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 | Map | Quick View

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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]

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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]

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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]

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Alta Murgia[26] | Apulia | 677.39 km2 (261.54 sq mi) | Torre Disperata | 686 m (2,251 ft) | 2004 |  |
Appennino Lucano - Val d'Agri - Lagonegrese[27] | Basilicata | 689.96 km2 (266.40 sq mi) | Monte del Papa | 2,005 m (6,578 ft) | 2007  |  |
Appennino Tosco-Emiliano[28] | Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany | 227.92 km2 (88.00 sq mi) | Monte Cusna | 2,121 m (6,959 ft) | 1997 |  |
Sila[29] | Calabria | 736.95 km2 (284.54 sq mi) | Monte Botte Donato | 1,928 m (6,325 ft) | 1997  |  |

### Parks established in 2010s[edit]

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Island of Pantelleria | Sicily | 66.4 km2 (25.6 sq mi) | Montagna Grande | 836 m (2,743 ft) | 2016 |  |

## See also[edit]

* Environment portal
* Italy portal

* Conservation in Italy
* List of regional parks of Italy
* List of Marine Protected Areas of Italy

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Elenco ufficiale delle aree protette (EUAP)] 6º Aggiornamento approvato il 27 aprile 2010 e pubblicato nel Supplemento ordinario n. 115 alla Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 125 del 31 maggio 2010" (in Italian). Retrieved 2 March 2022.
2. ^ "National Parks in Italy". Parks.it. 1995–2010. Retrieved 15 March 2010..
3. ^ "Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise".
4. ^ "Parco Nazionale del Circeo".
5. ^ "Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso".
6. ^ "Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio".
7. ^ "Parco Nazionale dell'Aspromonte".
8. ^ "Parco Nazionale Dolomiti Bellunesi".
9. ^ "Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna".
10. ^ "Parco Nazionale del Pollino".
11. ^ "Parco Nazionale dell'Arcipelago di La Maddalena".
12. ^ Admiralty 1913, p. 651
13. ^ "Parco Nazionale dell'Asinara".
14. ^ "Parco Nazionale del Cilento e Vallo di Diano".
15. ^ "Parco Nazionale delle Cinque Terre".
16. ^ Black 1898, p. 141.
17. ^ "Parco Nazionale del Gargano".
18. ^ McEwen, Ian & Marghaux. "The Gargano". Villa Oleandro. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
19. ^ "Parco Nazionale del Golfo di Orosei e del Gennargentu" (in Italian). parks.it.
20. ^ "Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga". Archived from the original on 2017-10-29. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
21. ^ Majella, Parco Nazionale della. "Home page | Parco Nazionale della Majella". www.parcomajella.it. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
22. ^ "Parco Nazionale dei Monti Sibillini".
23. ^ "Parco Nazionale Arcipelago Toscano".
24. ^ "Parco Nazionale della Val Grande".
25. ^ "Parco Nazionale del Vesuvio".
26. ^ "Parco Nazionale dell'Alta Murgia".
27. ^ "Parco Nazionale dell'Appennino Lucano - Val d'Agri - Lagonegrese".
28. ^ "Parco Nazionale Appennino Tosco-Emiliano".
29. ^ "Parco Nazionale della Sila".

## Bibliography[edit]

* Black, Charles Bertram (1898). The Riviera, Or The Coast from Marseilles to Leghorn: Including the Interior towns of Carrara, Lucca, Pisa, and Pistoia. London: Adam & Charles Black.
* Hydrographic Office, Admiralty (1913). The Mediterranean Pilot. Vol. I (5th ed.). London: Taylor, Garnett, Evans & Co.

## External links[edit]

* "Italia" (in Italian). ENIT - Italian Government Tourist Board. Archived from the original on 2009-04-27.

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