Gran Paradiso National Park
A national park in the Graian Alps, spread across the Aosta Valley and Piedmont around the Gran Paradiso mountain. It began as a royal hunting ground of King Victor Emmanuel II, protected to save the Alpine ibex from poachers, and ibex still graze its high slopes.
- Where
- Cogne, Aosta Valley, Italy
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- 45.5028, 7.3100
Get the Gran Paradiso National Park stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Gran Paradiso National Park. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Aosta Valley volume with your photos and a note.
Near Gran Paradiso National Park
Vanoise National Park 42 km
France's first national park, created in 1963 between the Tarentaise and Maurienne valleys in the Alps. Its high country of glaciers and peaks shelters ibex and chamois, and footpaths link mountain refuges across the massif.
Great St Bernard Hospice 42 km
A hospice and hostel for travellers on the Great St Bernard Pass, named after its founder Bernard of Menthon and kept by a community of canons regular ever since. It is the home of the St Bernard dogs, bred here to help find travellers lost in the snow.
Skyway Monte Bianco 44 km
A cable car that climbs from Entrèves, near Courmayeur, to Pointe Helbronner on the southern side of the Mont Blanc massif. Opened in 2015, its cabins turn slowly as they rise, giving a full circle of glaciers and peaks on the way up.
Mont Blanc 50 km
The highest mountain in the Alps at about 4,807 metres, its snow dome on the border between France and Italy. It rises above Chamonix, and the climb to the top usually takes two days, with a night in a mountain hut.
Aiguille du Midi 53 km
A granite needle of 3,842 metres in the Mont Blanc massif, reached by cable car straight from Chamonix. The top station has terraces facing Mont Blanc and a glass box, the Step into the Void, hanging over a sheer drop.
Mer de Glace 54 km
The longest glacier in France, a river of ice 7.5 kilometres long on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif. A rack railway climbs from Chamonix to Montenvers above it, and an ice cave is cut into the glacier each year for visitors to walk through.
Royal Palace of Turin 56 km
The palace of the House of Savoy, built in the 16th century and remodelled in the 17th, with later designs by the Baroque architect Filippo Juvarra. The complex takes in the Palazzo Chiablese and the Chapel of the Holy Shroud, built to hold the Shroud of Turin.
Museo Egizio 56 km
Founded in 1824 by King Charles Felix, the world's oldest museum devoted entirely to ancient Egypt. It holds more than 40,000 objects and is regarded as the second most important Egyptian collection in the world, after the one in Cairo.
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Questions
Where is Gran Paradiso National Park?
Gran Paradiso National Park is in Cogne, Aosta Valley, Italy. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Vanoise National Park (42 km), Great St Bernard Hospice (42 km), Skyway Monte Bianco (44 km).
How do I get the Gran Paradiso National Park stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Gran Paradiso National Park and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Aosta Valley volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Gran Paradiso National Park before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Aosta Valley volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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