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 together cover an area of ​​over , which correspond to approximately 5.3% of the Italian national territory. The parks are managed by the Ministry of the Environment based in Rome (). List of Italian national parks Parks established before the 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 Conservation in Italy List of regional parks of Italy List of Marine Protected Areas of Italy References Bibliography External links Italy National parks National parks