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

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Parks established before World War II

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Name Regions Area High Point Elevation Established Map Quick View
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

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Name Regions Area High Point Elevation Established Map Quick View
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

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Name Regions Area High Point Elevation Established Map Quick View
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

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Name Regions Area High Point Elevation Established Map Quick View
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

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Name Regions Area High Point Elevation Established Map Quick View
Island of Pantelleria Sicily 66.4 km2 (25.6 sq mi) Montagna Grande 836 m (2,743 ft) 2016

See also

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References

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  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

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