List of national parks of Italy

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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 km (6,200 sq mi), which corresponds to approximately 5.3% of the Italian national territory. The parks are managed by the Ministry of the Environment based in Rome (Italian: Ministero dell'Ambiente).

List of Italian national parks

Parks established before World War II

Name	Regions	Area	High Point	Elevation	Established
Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise	Abruzzo, Lazio, Molise	506.83 km (195.69 sq mi)	Monte Petroso	2,249 m (7,379 ft)	1923
Circeo	Lazio	84.40 km (32.59 sq mi)	Monte Circeo	541 m (1,775 ft)	1934
Gran Paradiso	Valle d'Aosta, Piedmont	700.00 km (270.27 sq mi)	Gran Paradiso	4,061 m (13,323 ft)	1922
Stelvio	Lombardy, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol	1,307.00 km (504.64 sq mi)	Cima Ortles	3,905 m (12,812 ft)	1935

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

Name	Regions	Area	High Point	Elevation	Established
Aspromonte	Calabria	760.53 km (293.64 sq mi)	Montalto	1,955 m (6,414 ft)	1989
Dolomiti Bellunesi	Veneto	31.51 km (12.17 sq mi)	Monte Pavione	2,335 m (7,661 ft)	1988
Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, and Campigna	Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany	364.00 km (140.54 sq mi)	Monte Falterona	1,645 m (5,397 ft)	1989
Pollino	Basilicata, Calabria	1,925.65 km (743.50 sq mi)	Sierra Dolcedorme	2,267 m (7,438 ft)	1988

Parks established in the 1990s

Name	Regions	Area	High Point	Elevation	Established
Archipelago of La Maddalena	Sardinia	201.46 km (77.78 sq mi)	Punta Tejalone, Caprera	212 m (696 ft)	1994
Asinara	Sardinia	269.60 km (104.09 sq mi)	Punta Scomunica	408 m (1,339 ft)	1997
Cilento, Vallo di Diano, and Alburni	Campania	1,810.48 km (699.03 sq mi)	Monte Cervati	1,898 m (6,227 ft)	1991
Cinque Terre	Liguria	38.60 km (14.90 sq mi)	Monte (Mai-)Pertuso	820 m (2,690 ft)	1999
Gargano	Apulia	1,211.18 km (467.64 sq mi)	Monte Calvo	1,065 m (3,494 ft)	1991
Gennargentu	Sardinia	730.00 km (281.85 sq mi)	Punta La Marmora	1,834 m (6,017 ft)	1998
Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga	Marche, Abruzzo, Lazio	1,413.31 km (545.68 sq mi)	Corno Grande	2,912 m (9,554 ft)	1991
Majella	Abruzzo	704.00 km (271.82 sq mi)	Monte Amaro	2,793 m (9,163 ft)	1991
Sibillini Mountains	Marche, Umbria	697.22 km (269.20 sq mi)	Monte Vettore	2,476 m (8,123 ft)	1988
Tuscan Archipelago	Tuscany	746.53 km (288.24 sq mi)	Monte Capanne on Elba in the Tuscan Archipelago	1,018 m (3,340 ft)	1989
Val Grande	Piedmont	145.98 km (56.36 sq mi)	Monte Togano	2,295 m (7,530 ft)	1991
Vesuvius	Campania	72.59 km (28.03 sq mi)	Great Cone	1,281 m (4,203 ft)	1991

Parks established in the 2000s

Name	Regions	Area	High Point	Elevation	Established
Alta Murgia	Apulia	677.39 km (261.54 sq mi)	Torre Disperata	686 m (2,251 ft)	2004
Appennino Lucano - Val d'Agri - Lagonegrese	Basilicata	689.96 km (266.40 sq mi)	Monte del Papa	2,005 m (6,578 ft)	2007
Appennino Tosco-Emiliano	Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany	227.92 km (88.00 sq mi)	Monte Cusna	2,121 m (6,959 ft)	1997
Sila	Calabria	736.95 km (284.54 sq mi)	Monte Botte Donato	1,928 m (6,325 ft)	1997

Parks established in 2010s

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

References

"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.
"National Parks in Italy". Parks.it. 1995–2010. Retrieved 15 March 2010..
"Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise".
"Parco Nazionale del Circeo".
"Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso".
"Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio".
"Parco Nazionale dell'Aspromonte".
"Parco Nazionale Dolomiti Bellunesi".
"Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna".
"Parco Nazionale del Pollino".
"Parco Nazionale dell'Arcipelago di La Maddalena".
Admiralty 1913, p. 651
"Parco Nazionale dell'Asinara".
"Parco Nazionale del Cilento e Vallo di Diano".
"Parco Nazionale delle Cinque Terre".
Black 1898, p. 141.
"Parco Nazionale del Gargano".
McEwen, Ian & Marghaux. "The Gargano". Villa Oleandro. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
"Parco Nazionale del Golfo di Orosei e del Gennargentu" (in Italian). parks.it.
"Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga". Archived from the original on 2017-10-29. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
Majella, Parco Nazionale della. "Home page | Parco Nazionale della Majella". www.parcomajella.it. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
"Parco Nazionale dei Monti Sibillini".
"Parco Nazionale Arcipelago Toscano".
"Parco Nazionale della Val Grande".
"Parco Nazionale del Vesuvio".
"Parco Nazionale dell'Alta Murgia".
"Parco Nazionale dell'Appennino Lucano - Val d'Agri - Lagonegrese".
"Parco Nazionale Appennino Tosco-Emiliano".
"Parco Nazionale della Sila".

Bibliography

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

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

v t e National parks of Italy
National parks	Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise Alta Murgia Appennino Lucano - Val d'Agri - Lagonegrese Appennino Tosco-Emiliano Arcipelago di la Maddalena Arcipelago Toscano Asinara Aspromonte Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni Cinque Terre Cinque Vette Circeo Dolomiti Bellunesi Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna Gargano Gennargentu Gran Paradiso Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga Majella Monti Sibillini Pantelleria Pollino Sila Stelvio Val Grande Vesuvius

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