The national parks of Italy are protected natural areas categorized as 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) that altogether cover an area of over , which corresponds to approximately 5.3% of Italian national territory. The parks are managed by the Ministry of the Environment based in Rome ()..
List of Italian national parks Parks established before World War II Name Regions Area High Point Elevation Established Map Quick View Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise Abruzzo, Lazio, Molise Monte Petroso 1923 Circeo Lazio Monte Circeo 1934 Gran Paradiso Valle d'Aosta, Piedmont Gran Paradiso 1922 Stelvio Lombardy, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Cima Ortles 1935
Parks established from the post-war period up to the 1980s Name Regions Area High Point Elevation Established Map Quick View Aspromonte Calabria Montalto 1989 Dolomiti Bellunesi Veneto Monte Pavione 1988 Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, and Campigna Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany Monte Falterona 1989 Pollino Basilicata, Calabria Sierra Dolcedorme 1988
Parks established in the 1990s Name Regions Area High Point Elevation Established Map Quick View Archipelago of La Maddalena Sardinia Punta Tejalone, 1994 Asinara Sardinia Punta Scomunica 1997 Cilento, Vallo di Diano, and Alburni Campania Monte Cervati 1991 Cinque Terre Liguria Monte (Mai-)Pertuso. 1999 Gargano Apulia Monte Calvo 1991 Gennargentu Sardinia Punta La Marmora 1998 Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga Marche, Abruzzo, Lazio Corno Grande 1991 MajellaAbruzzoMonte Amaro1991 Sibillini Mountains Marche, Umbria Monte Vettore 1988 Tuscan Archipelago Tuscany Monte Capanne on Elba in the Tuscan Archipelago 1989 Val Grande Piedmont Monte Togano 1991 Vesuvius Campania Great Cone 1991
Parks established in the 2000s Name Regions Area High Point Elevation Established Map Quick View Alta Murgia Apulia Torre Disperata 2004 Appennino Lucano - Val d'Agri - Lagonegrese Basilicata Monte del Papa 2007 Appennino Tosco-Emiliano Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany Monte Cusna 1997 Sila Calabria Monte Botte Donato 1997
Parks established in 2010s Name Regions Area High Point Elevation Established Map Quick View Island of Pantelleria Sicily Montagna Grande 2016
See also
Conservation in Italy List of regional parks of Italy List of Marine Protected Areas of Italy
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