Stelvio National Park
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Parco nazionale dello Stelvio / Nationalpark Stilfser Joch is a National Park in the north-east of Italy, founded in 1935.
The Park is the largest in Italy and covers part of two regions: Trentino-Alto Adige and Lombardia, in 24 municipalities.
The Stelvio National Park, borders on the Swiss National Park, on the Parco naturale provinciale dell'Adamello-Brenta. and on the Parco regionale dell'Adamello. All these parks together make a huge 400.000 hectares of protected nature. The park includes an extensive territory of valleys and high mountains, from the 650 to 3,900 meters
Wandering in the Stelvio National Park, you can encounter chamoises, roe deers, red deers, foxes, ermines, squirrels, marmots, hares, eurasian badgers, weasels and brown bears; you can see in the sky white partridges, lammergeiers, imperial crows, carrion-crows, woodpeckers, sharp-tailed grouses, Buzzards, owls, golden eagles.
