BY YONATAN | TRAVEL ADDICTS Asmara Things to see and do in Eritrea – Asmara there are few cities so suited to the simple pleasure of walking and exploring as Asmara. The climate is perfect, the streets are clean, refreshment is widespread, crime is very rare, the architecture is stunning, the distances are manageable, the […]
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Asmara is Africa’s stunning new UNESCO World Heritage Site BY SENAIT FESEHA | THE REPORTER Imagine, if you will, strolling through a quiet city where you may find empty intersections and very few people on the streets; a city with seemingly little connection with the outside world, as if it was located on an entirely […]
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BY TOM GARDNER | QUARTZ AFRICA In 1996 a German architecture firm proposed razing historic buildings in the centre of Asmara, one of Africa’s most beautiful cities, to make way for glass high-rises. Eritreans, who are deeply proud of their capital’s Italian-era modernist architecture, began to worry that their hard-fought heritage was under threat.
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Asmara is the first modernist city in the world to be listed in its entirety. BY OLIVER WAIWRIGHT | THE GUARDIAN Standing as a startling collection of futuristic Italian architecture from the 1930s, perched on a desert mountaintop high above the Red Sea, the Eritrean capital of Asmara has been listed as a UNESCO World […]
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PRESS RELEASE Eritrea Delegation 41st Session of the World Heritage Committee Krakow, Poland – 8 July 2017 Today, 8 July 2017, at the 41st Session of the World Heritage Committee (currently taking place in Krakow, Poland from 7-12 July 2017) “Asmara: A Modernist City of Africa” has been inscribed on to the UNESCO World Heritage […]
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By Shabait, Efforts exerted to register the historic and ancient Art Deco buildings of Asmara City in UNESCO World Heritage list is making remarkable progress, stated Eng. Medhanie Teklemariam, Co-ordinator of Asmara Heritage Project in the Central region.
Continue ReadingBy iExplore.com, ERITREA is a rather small yet exceptionally interesting country situated in the Horn of Africa, with its northeast and eastern coastline facing the Red Sea. This East African country has the soul of a true African nation with a touch of French, Turkish and Egyptian elements, both in terms of culture and architecture. […]
Continue ReadingBy Shabait, THERE is a friend of mine, who usually gets attracted and too much engrossed by the overall beauty of Asmara’s (Asmarino) ladies. I could only guess about what makes him attracted to such an indescribable beauty for the exact reason behind his remark is not yet known to me. He usually exclaims saying “The […]
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