What to visit in Italy?
The Colosseum - credit: Best Adventure Trips
Nature
The Italian parks consist of land, sea, river or lake containing one or more ecosystems intact or even partially altered by man-made interventions. One or more natural formations, geological, geomorphological, biological, national interest or international naturalistic , Scientific, cultural, aesthetic, educational values to justify the intervention of the State for their conservation.
The National Parks currently enrolled are 22.
Abruzzi National Park - credit: cincinnato
The 22 national parks covering a total area of approximately 1 million and four hundred thousand hectares (14,000 square kilometre), corresponding to about 5% of the national territory.
Historical Parks
- National Park d’Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise (1922)
- National Park of Gran Paradiso (1922)
- National Park of Circeo (1934)
- National Park of Stelvio (1935)
- National Park of Calabria (1968)
- National Park of Aspromonte (1989)