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Orchids - Speckled Orchid Hybrid, Orchidaceae, Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, Brazil

Snakes and Reptiles - Madagascar Giant Chameleon (Furcifer verrucosus), Chamaeleonidae. Fort Dauphin, Madagascar

Illustration - Fireworks in Otranto for the centenary of the city, Puglia (Italy) from L'Illustrazione Italiana, 1880

Portraits - Aborigine, Australia

Folklore - Basotho man on horseback, Lesotho

Maps - Carta del Cantino, 1502. Detail: Western Africa, 16th century

Italian Architecture - Telamon at the entrance to Palazzo Vescovile or Bishop's Palace, 1776-1786, Mantua, Italy (UNESCO World Heritage List, 2008)

Contemporary Architecture - E1-E2 building and UniCredit Pavilion (IBM Studios), Piazza Gae Aulenti complex, Milan, Italy

Italian Food - Saffron crocus (Crocus sativa) flowers, saffron production, Gran Sasso national park, Abruzzo, Italy

Blue - Citrus fruit, flowers and birds on a blue background, decorative detail from a table, Caltagirone, Sicily

Vintage Italy - Female children at a summer camp, Genoa (Italy), 1944

Tattoo - Indian woman's hands decorated with mehndi, Varanasi, India

Workers - Cartographer of the Hydrographic Institute of Genoa (Italy), 1936

Maya - The Great Acropolis, archaeological site of Edzna, Campeche, Mexico

Mountains - Tofana di Rozes mountain, Nature Park of Ampezzo Dolomites, Italy (UNESCO World Heritage List, 2009)