1. Università degli Studi di Milano: modern facade and the entrance from Via Festa del Perdono - @ Vaclav Sedy, 2007

2. The honor courtyard - @ Paolo Sacchi, 2010

3. One of the cloisters - @ Paolo Sacchi, 2010

4. Upper colonnade - @ Paolo Sacchi, 2010

5. The Permian-Triassic succession from Nurra (Sardinia) - @ A. Ronchi, UNIPV

6. Detail of the cyclic bedding of the Pliocene Trubi Formation at Punta di Maiata ("Scala dei Turchi"), Sicily, part of the Capo Rossello Zanclean unit stratotype section - @ Commissione Italiana di Stratigrafia

7. Duomo (1387-) the cathedral of the town @ Max_Ryazanov

8. Castello Sforzesco @ Diego Baglieri

9. Teatro alla Scala @ Palickap

10. Cyclic bedding of the Pliocene Trubi Formation at Punta di Maiata (“Scala dei Turchi”), Sicily, part of the Capo Rossello Zanclean unit stratotype section - @ Commissione Italiana di Stratigrafia

11. Marine succession forming bad lands at Montalbano Jonico (Basilicata). Reference section for the GSSP of the Middle Pleistocene Stage - Courtesy of M. Marino, UNIBA

12. Early to Middle Pleistocene aeolian sediments at Capo Mannu (western Sardinia) yielding trace fossils of Praemegaceros - Courtesy of M.R. Palombo, UNIROMA1

13. The Triassic successions of the Dolomites, the area where fossil reefs were recognized for the first time in the second half of 19th century - @ P. Gianolla, UNIFE

14. The Late Carnian to Rhaetian pelagic succession of Pizzo Mondello (western Sicily), a marine succession crucial for the calibration of the Late Triassic Newark astrochronological polarity time scale - @ M. Balini, UNIMI

15. Oligocene turbidites cropping out along the coast at Vernazza (foreground) and Monterosso (background), Parco Nazionale delle Cinqueterre, Liguria - @ Stefania Silvestri, ISPRA