Located at over 2,000 m above sea level, the capital of Eritrea developed from the 1890s onwards as a military outpost for the Italian colonial power. After 1935, Asmara underwent a large scale ...

Eritrea's capital Asmara is home to one of the world's best collections of futurist architecture. The is bidding to become the nation's first UNESCO World Heritage site. Once a sleepy corner of the ...

ASMARA (AFP) – Eritrea's capital Asmara boasts buildings unlike anywhere else in Africa, a legacy of its Italian colonial past, when architects were given free rein for structures judged too ...

The Fiat Tagliero in Eritrea is described as the world’s most beautiful petrol station. Built to resemble an aeroplane in flight, with 18m solid concrete wings that soar over the pumps below, the ...

The UN cultural agency Unesco has added Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, to its list of World Heritage sites. The country still holds many well-preserved modernist buildings from the time when it was ...

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DOHA, Qatar – Qatar Airways today announced a further expansion of its African operations with plans to launch scheduled flights to Eritrea’s capital city Asmara, effective 4 December 2014. DOHA, ...

Completed in 1939, the Fiat Tagliero service station is one of the city's many Art Deco structures. Sailko/Wikimedia Commons The city is rife with examples of Art Deco architecture. Clay ...

ADDIS ABABA, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Six explosions were reported in the Eritrean capital, Asmara, late on Saturday, the U.S. State Department said on Twitter although the cause and location were not clear ...