Just as the day Asmara was liberated, Eritreans all over the world are basking in her glory and celebrating her new found fame – World Heritage Site. BY SOPHIA TESFAMARIAM Asmara woke up early on 8 July 2017, as it did for ages…the early morning call to prayers from nearby mosques and the sounds of […]
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BY ALEM FISSHATZION Asmara is the city of my dreams. This article is not about Asmara, nor is it about the history of the city. Rather, it is about an exciting period of my experiences growing up in The City of Cultural Heritage as a schoolboy in the 1960s.
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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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He was elated to find an inscription he carved into the sidewalk on Liberation Avenue, dated 1-5-51 BY BEREKET KIDANE As human beings reach an advanced age and start looking back on their lives, they reminisce about places and people from their past. Some take a road trip to visit their college campuses, the army base they […]
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BY ASMAIT FUTSUMBRHAN | SHABAIT One of the world’s historic places, Asmara City, is well known for its well preserved buildings. Its various remarkable Art-Deco structures have made it a destination for many tourists around the world over the years. Asmara is believed to have more than 4000 buildings that are of great significance to […]
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“Asmara – Africa’s Modernist City: UNESCO World Heritage Nomination” dossier wins the 2016 Royal Institution British Architecture (RIBA) ‘President’s Medal for Research’. By Eritrea EmbassyMedia, For 50 years the Royal Institution British Architecture (RIBA) awards and prizes have championed and celebrated the best architecture in the UK and around the world. Successful projects reflect changes […]
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By Deutsche Welle (DW), Eritrea, a country in East Africa, hopes to attract tourists in the future. The potential is huge – given Eritrea’s long Red Sea coast, and of course, the unique colonial architecture of the capital Asmara, which could soon be declared a UNESCO world heritage site.
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By Edmund Blair | for Reuters, In an often forgotten corner of the Horn of Africa, Eritrea’s capital boasts one of the world’s finest collections of early 20th century architecture and the authorities want it declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. When Italy’s colonial experiment in Eritrea ended in 1941, it left behind an array […]
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