44 locations has kept elephants in Italy
There is presently 29 (3,26) living elephants in locations in Italy (in this database)
Region: Italy is in this database included in europe Other regions Location holdings: 44 locations has kept 90 elephants in Italy (Database tables with collection of elephants further down on the page )
Elephants in locations 29 (3,26) living 61 (11,49) dead Sex ratio and Management: Male 3 / 29 10% Female 26 / 29 90% Free contact 11 / 29 38% Protected contact 6 / 29 21% No contact 1 / 29 3% Unknown contact 3 / 29 10% wild 0 / 29 0%
The first elephants arriving in Italy during post-roman time was two elephants en route to Germany; Charlemagnes elephant Abul-Abbas , arriving in Aachen in 802. The second elephant is refered to as The Cremona elephant arriving in 1229. Both those elephants were walked through Italy on their way to their end destination.
One of the first post-roman elephants residing in Italy was Hanno (Annone) a gift to Pope Leo X from Emanuel I, King of Portugal in 1515.
Recommended Citation Koehl, Dan, Facts about elephants in Italy . Elephant Encyclopedia, (2020) available online retrieved at https://www.elephant.se/country.php?name=Italy . (archived at the Wayback machine )Internal relevant links The elephant database startpage. Statistics News about elephants in Italy (From the sister site Elephant News)
Name Elephant collection Type Place District Province State Region
Alfredo Rossi Kept totally 4 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 4 relocated 0 deaths circus Bellini Zoo Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths zoo Catania Sicily Brescia Maxi Zoo Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths zoo Brescia Lombardy Bussolengo Safari Park (Garda Zoological Park) Kept totally 3 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 2 relocated 1 deaths zoo Bussolengo(map) Circo Americano (American Circus, Flavio Togni) Kept totally 26 elephants, 4 present (0,4) 0 births 11 relocated 11 deaths circus Verona Circo Embell Riva (Belucci) Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths circus Circo Rinaldo Orfei Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths circus Circo Rony Roller Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths circus Salerno Circo Wegliams (Circo Jumbo, Formisano) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths circus Ercolano Circorama (Circo a 3 piste Orfei) Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths circus Circorama (Liana Orfei) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths circus Circus Bisini (Bisini Gran Circo Continentale) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths circus Circus Cesare Togni (Circo Cesare Togni) Kept totally 6 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 3 relocated 3 deaths circus Circus Darix Togni (Circo Darix Togni) Kept totally 10 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 5 relocated 5 deaths circus Circus Errani (Circo Errani) Kept totally 3 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 3 relocated 0 deaths circus Recanati Circus Ferdinando Togni (Circo Ferdinando Togni) Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths circus Circus Florilegio (Circo Il Florilegio di Darix Togni) Kept totally 4 elephants, 4 present (0,4) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths circus Circus Lidia Togni Kept totally 6 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 5 relocated 1 deaths circus Circus Medrano (Circo Medrano Casartelli) Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 2 relocated 0 deaths circus Vecchia(map) Circus Moira Orfei Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths circus Circus Nando Orfei (Circo Nando Orfei, Amazons Circus) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths circus Circus Orfei Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths circus Circus Togni (Circo Nazionale Togni) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths circus Circus Zoppe (Circo Zoppe) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths circus Fasano Zoosafari Kept totally 15 elephants, 12 present (3,9) 0 births 2 relocated 1 deaths zoo Fasano, Brindisi, Apulia Fiumicino Safari Park (Zoo Safari di Fiumicino) Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths zoo Fiumicino Rome Frederick II of Holy German empire Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths private Giardino Zoologico di Milano Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths zoo Milan La Specola Museum of Zoology and Natural History Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths museum Florence(map) Mark Shand (1951-2014) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths private Rome Molinar Co Kept totally 4 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 4 relocated 0 deaths dealer Turin(map) Museo Civico di Zoologia Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths museum Roma RM(map) Museum of Zoology Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths museum Padova(map) Veneto Naples Zoo (Giardino Zoologico di Napoli) Kept totally 11 elephants, 1 present (0,1) 0 births 6 relocated 4 deaths zoo Napoli Nicolay Circo Montecarlo Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 2 relocated 0 deaths circus Palazzo Venezia Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths private (map) Parco Faunistico Le Cornelle Kept totally 10 elephants, 2 present (0,2) 0 births 6 relocated 2 deaths zoo Valbrembo Paride Orfei Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 2 relocated 0 deaths circus Peschiera Borromeo Pistoia Zoo Kept totally 2 elephants, 1 present (0,1) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths zoo Pistoia(map) Pombia Safari Park Lago Maggiore Kept totally 1 elephants, 1 present (0,1) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths zoo Pombia(map) Piedmont Pope Leo X (Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths private Rome(map) Rome Zoo (Bioparco - Giardino Zoologico di Roma) Kept totally 26 elephants, 2 present (0,2) 4 births 4 relocated 20 deaths zoo Rome Safari Ravenna Kept totally 7 elephants, 2 present (0,2) 0 births 4 relocated 1 deaths zoo Ravenna, Località Mirabilandia (RA)(map) Emilia-Romagna Turin Zoo (Zoo Torino) Kept totally 5 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 4 relocated 1 deaths zoo Turin