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 ().