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PARKS AND NATURAL RESORTS
Italia Dolomiti di Sesto Dolomiti d'Ampezzo Tarvisiano Parco di Tessa Parco dello Stelvio Parco del Gran Paradiso Parco dell'Adamello Parco del Ticino Parco delle Alpi Marittime Foreste Casentinesi Parco di San Rossore Monte Amiata Parco della Maremma Parco del Tevere Parco Sirente - Velino Parco dei Monti Sibillini Parco del Gran Sasso d'Italia Parco d'Abruzzo Parco del Circeo Parco del Cilento Parco del Pollino Parco delle Madonie
The Parks
The many national and regional natural parks in Italy now cover more than two and a half million hectares which is equivalent to 9% of the country, and thus occupy vast areas in proportion to the country as a whole. They serve to protect and safeguard a natural heritage of undoubted beauty and also as a means of linking and exploiting the different types of locality which find the cohesion and key resource of their development in the beauty and delicacy of the land. There are, of course, the biggest historical Italian parks, but the Stelvio, the Abruzzo, the Gran Sasso and the Gran Paradiso National Parks must also be mentioned.
 Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio
Located in the Ortles-Cevedale mountain range. Wildlife is one of the most spectacular attractions of the park: ibex goats, chamois, deer, roe deer and marmots, as well as numerous species of birds, including the eagle, which is the park’s symbol.
 Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso
The Gran Paradiso was set up in 1922 and is the oldest national park in Italy. It is a high mountain park with considerable number of animal species: ibex goats, chamois and marmots. Bird species include eagles and eagle owls, as well as binconi, wood larks and ortolans.
 Parco Nazionale d’Abruzzo
The Abruzzo National Park is in the mountainous centre of Italy. A vast and unspoilt wilderness, habitat of the Marsica brown bear, the Abruzzo chamois, the Apennine wolf and the golden eagle.
 Parco Nazionale del Circeo
Circeo promontory is easily reached from Rome, driving south after Latina. The wildlife in the park consists of boars, squirrels, foxes, porcupines, polecats, weasels, stone-marten and badgers. There are numerous kinds of nesting birds including the hobby, the pecchiaiolo falcon and a number of woodpeckers.
 Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta
Set in the heart of the Alps, the Adamello-Brenta Natural Park is the largest protected area in Trentino. The wildlife is very wide, with many rare species: the most important are the last remaining brown Alpine bears which are now extinct in the whole of the Alps except for those in a small part of the park.
 Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso
The Gran Sasso Mountain, 2912 m at the Corno Grande peak, is the highest in the whole of the Apennine range. The park’s wildlife includes chamois, wolves, wild cats, stone-marten and weasels. Numerous species of birds, including the golden eagle, the peregrine falcon and the greater red woodpecker.
 Parco Dolomiti di Sesto
The Sesto Dolomites Natural Park covers one of the most famous climbing areas in the Dolomites. About 50 species of birds live in the park of which the undisputed monarch is the golden eagle.
 Parco del Cilento
This park is located near Salerno, in the Cilento massifs, where there are wolves, wild cats, martens, polecats and badgers. Otters live along the rivers. Amongst the many birds there are golden eagles, black woodpeckers, ravens and kites.
Main Parks
- Parco nazionale dello Stelvio
- Parco nazionale del Gran Paradiso
- Parco nazionale d'Abruzzo
- Parco nazionale del Circeo
- Parco naturale Adamello Brenta
- Parco nazionale del Gran Sasso
- Parco Dolomiti di Sesto - Tre cime di Lavaredo
- Parco del cilento

Others
- Monte Amiata
- Parco d'Abruzzo
- Parco dell'Adamello
- Foreste Casentinesi
- Parco del Cilento
- Parco del Circeo
- Parco Naturale delle Dolomiti d'Ampezzo
- Parco del Monte Gennaro
- Parco del Gran Sasso d'Italia
- Parco delle Madonie
- Parco della Maremma
- Parco delle Alpi Marittime
- Parco di San Rossore
- Parco del Gran Paradiso
- Parco del Pollino
- Parco Dolomiti di Sesto - Tre cime di Lavaredo
- Parco dei Monti Sibillini
- Parco Sirente - Velino
- Parco dello Stelvio
- Parco del Tarvisiano
- Parco di Tessa
- Parco del Tevere
- Parco del Ticino

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