List of national parks of 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]

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Name	Regions	Area	High Point	Elevation	Established
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

Name	Regions	Area	High Point	Elevation	Established
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

Name	Regions	Area	High Point	Elevation	Established
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

Name	Regions	Area	High Point	Elevation	Established
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

List of national parks of Italy

List of Italian national parks

Parks established before World War II

Parks established from the post-war period up to the 1980s

Parks established in the 1990s

Parks established in the 2000s

Parks established in 2010s

See also

References

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