The national park of the Grand Paradise is between Piedmont and Val of Aoste, in Italy, at the border of the France (being next to the National park of Vanoise).

The national park

The Great Paradise, it is also the name of a royal reserve created by the king Victor-Emmanuel II in 1856 to protect the Bouquetin, then in process of extinction. This protected territory became a National park in 1922. It inspired the later creation of the National park of Vanoise located in France, and which it is next to.

Protected territory

Communes of the park

• Valley of Aoste: Aymavilles, Knocks, Introd, Rhêmes-Our-Lady, Rhêmes-Saint-Georges, Valsavarenche and Villeneuve
• Piedmont: Ceresole Reale, Locana, Noasca, Ribordone, Ronco Canavese and Valprato Soana

Access to the park

Knocks , in north, and Ceresole Reale , in the south, is the two easiest access points to the park.

The organization of management of the park ( Graft Parco Nazionale Gran-Paradiso ) has its seat with Turin

External bonds

• Official site of the park
• Card of the park on site UNEP-WCMC