On 3rd December 1922 the Gran Paradiso National park was created through a royal decree, which relinquished the former royal hunting ground to the state and created the oldest national park in Italy.
On 3rd December 1922 the Gran Paradiso National park was created through a royal decree, which relinquished the former royal hunting ground to the state and created the oldest national park in Italy.
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The Gran Paradiso National Park is named after the namesake massif of Gran Paradiso (4,061 m) , the only four thousander entirely within the Italian borders. It stretches across the regions of Aosta valley and Piedmont, in the Graian Alps, the north western section of the Alps.
The land the park encompasses was initially protected in order to protect the Alpine ibex from poachers, as it was made a personal hunting ground for King Victor Emmanuel II in 1858, but now also protects other species, including chamois, marmots, wolves.
It encompasses 703 square kilometres (173,715 acres) of alpine terrain and together with the neighbouring French park of La Vanoise, it forms one of the biggest natural reserves in the Alps for the preservation of alpine flora and fauna, especially the symbol of the national park, [the alpine ibex](https://static.ohga.it/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2020/05/gran-paradiso.jpg), which moves across those parks seasonally.
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