What is ERITREA? ???????? The Italy of Africa?
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I'm thrilled to be back in Africa where I will spend the remaining 3 months of the year! Many of you probably haven’t heard of Eritrea before and that’s because it’s a relatively new country and it’s notoriously difficult to enter (top 5 in the world). After 48 hours of roaming around the capital of Asmara and the ancient port city of Massawa, I’ve really enjoyed my time here.
I’m getting flashbacks to when I was in Ethiopia, yet also touches of Yemen Somaliland and Italy. Yes - ITALY! Eritrea is a former Italian colony and their influence is remarkably well-preserved in the form of giant cathedrals, pizza parlors, gelato shops, old Italian cars, appertivos and many people can still speak fluent Italiano.
The capital of Asmara is VERY safe, with kind-hearted people and surprisingly the weather is cold here (2,400 meters high). Unfortunately due to WiFi issues, I haven't been able to upload anything until now, but there’s no hurry because life is wonderful here! More to come soon ????????
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ASMARA - ERITREA: The Most Unique City in Africa
Asmara is the capital city of Eritrea and the city is hugely dominated by women who make up thrice the population of men. When you step into Asmara City, you are Literally taken back in time as the city has buildings that were built way back during the Italian rule. The three official languages spoken in Asmara are, Tigrinya, English and Arabica.
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The incredible history and architecture of Italy’s little known Empire in Africa
Asmara in Eritrea has wonderful modernist Italian architecture - learn about it and its fascist past as well as seeing pictures including of the amazing Fiat Tagliero building. It also featured in the video of Chiaro di Luna by Jovanotti -
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Mussolini's City - Eritrea
August 2004
In a small corner of Africa, Mussolini's unusual legacy survives. The Eritrean capital of Asmara is one of the world's best kept architectural secrets.
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Eritrea: Asmara Africa's Beautiful Modernist City (BBC)
Eritrea: Asmara Africa's Beautiful Modernist City (BBC) . Eritrea is located in E. Africa. (Africa Travel)
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Capital of Eritrea
Asmara is the capital city of Eritrea, a country in the Horn of Africa. It's known for its Italian colonial buildings, like the Catholic Cathedral. The city's eclectic architecture ranges from art deco cinemas to the Futurist, airplane-shaped Fiat Tagliero service station.
The grand former governor's palace dates from the 19th century. Close by is the ornate Opera House, built in the early 1900s in a mix of styles.
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Glimpses of Eritrea: A tour of the beautiful city of Asmara, the capital of the State of Eritrea, 18 September 2015. Gratitude to Mr. Semere Petros, the then Honorary Consul of India in Eritrea.
Italian architecture in Asmara, Eritrea ???????? #asmaraitaliana #architetturaitaliana #storiaitaliana
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ERITREA VIRTUAL TRAVEL TOUR | TRAVEL DISCOVERY
ERITREA VIRTUAL TRAVEL TOUR | TRAVEL DISCOVERY
Welcome to Travel Discovery! This channel is for those who enjoy travelling virtually and exploring other countries. In this video we will discover Eritrea. Eritrea is a northeast African country on the Red Sea coast. It shares borders with Ethiopia, Sudan and Djibouti. The capital city, Asmara, is known for its Italian colonial buildings, like St. Joseph's Cathedral, as well as art deco structures. Italian, Egyptian and Turkish architecture in Massawa reflect the port city's colorful history. Notable buildings here include St. Mariam Cathedral and the Imperial Palace. Let's take a virtual tour in one of the most secretive countries in the world!
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ERITREA ????????- What's It Like to Travel There?
Eritrea remains one of the least visited countries in the world for a reason. On top of the visa issues, in order to travel anywhere outside of the capital – Asmara, or attend national events you need each individual permit. These permits aren’t the easiest to obtain due to the country’s bureaucracy and they’re often rejected.
I spent a full week exploring different corners of Eritrea, one of the most mysterious countries in the world.
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Beautiful Places to Visit in downtown Asmara, Eritrea - Shuk Market
Sights and sounds of Asmara -- Eritrea's capital city. The footage is taken from the streets of Shuk--one of the main marketplaces in the city--on my most recent trip to Eritrea.
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TOP 10 PLACES TO VISIT IN ERITREA /ASMARA
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Eritrea capital Asmara makes World Heritage list in colonial architecture
Eritrea capital Asmara makes World Heritage list in colonial architecture
Architecture from the colonial era left an exceptional example of modernism, judges say.Odeon cinema facade in Asmara, EritreaAFP
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 ruled by Italy (1889-1941).bowling alley with coloured glass windows and a huge skittle on the outsideAFP
Unesco said Asmara was an exceptional example of early modernist urbanism at the beginning of the 20th century and its application in an African context. This bowling alley was built in the era in an art deco style.
man taking bowling ball from queue in an art deco bowling alleyAFP
Eritrean authorities declared the city a national monument in 2001, and had been attempting for years to gain recognition for its architectural heritage.
close up of bowling ballsAFP
More than 400 modernist buildings survive, having lived through a decades-long conflict with Ethiopia.
Fiat Tagliero, garage shaped like an aeroplaneAFP
Famous among them is the Fiat Tiaglero building, a petrol station shaped as an aeroplane. Built in 1938, it now stands empty.
The garage in use, with Shell petrol station signs outside and people standing talkingSTEVE FORREST/ GETTY IMAGES
The garage, which was still in use when this photograph was taken in 1999, is a prime example of how European architects would go to the city to develop work deemed too wacky in their home countries.
Art deco cinema exteriorAFP
The Cinema Impero, completed in 1937, still holds screenings for thousands of Eritrean cinemagoers. The country's representative to Unesco, Hanna Simon, said the announcement filled the city with tremendous pride and joy but also with a profound sense of responsibility and duty.
Modern architectural treasures, the capital city of Asmara Eritrea
Asmara, the most beautiful African city
While Eritrea was under Italian colonial rule, architecturally conservative early-20th-century Europeans used Asmara to experiment with radical new designs. Nowadays the major part of buildings are of Italian origin, and shops still have Italian names (e.g., Bar Vittoria, Pasticceria moderna, Casa del formaggio, and Ferramenta).
Asmara was populated by a large Italian community and consequently the city acquired an Italian architectural look. The city of Asmara had a population of 98,000, of which 53,000 were Italian according to the Italian census of 1939. This fact made Asmara the main Italian town of the Italian empire in Africa. In all of Eritrea the population of Italians was only 75,000 in total in that year, making Asmara by far their largest centre.
Many industrial investments were made by Italy in Asmara, but the beginning of World War II stopped the blossoming industrialization of the area.
orthodox cathedral... Asmara, Eritrea (Subsaharian Africa)
Asamara, the capital city of Eriteria
Asamara, the capital city of Eriteria. The beautiful Asmara city.
Tormento - Italian tango in Africa ( Asmara)
It is a slow a romantic melody and the well marked rhythm could be a little torment and being related to a tango could be easily considered as a love affliction, so I would imagine about a young italian civil servant transferred in Eritrea, at that times an Italian african colony, far from his love, and far from the chance of dance some tangos ! This is a tango from the archive of Mr. Marco Capurro, a gentleman of Genoa ( Italy) that transferred in mp3 a lot of 78rpm of his father.
I found no references about this tango, there is a list of old recordings with Tormento by Italian Daniele Serra of 1927, and for years and style could be this one. Images are from Eritrean capital city Asmara, that in 1927 was the main city of Eritrea; a lot of public and private buildings of Asmara are the best and preserved example of Italian architecture called Modernism typical of years 1925-1940, for some aspect similar to Decò style. Some buildings are in more classical roman style, as the church, others are masterpiece of that style as the FIAT building ( the major italian car producer) at 2:00. Not so lucky the building of Alfa Romeo...... at that time another independent car producer, now owned by FIAT.
Un tango lento con una melodia romantica e un ritmo ben marcato che potrebbe essere un il segno del tormento che essendo connesso ad un tango può essere facilmente considerato come afflizione d'amore, allora mi immagino un giovane funzionario civile italiano trasferito in Eritrea, che in quegli anni era una colonia italiana, lontano dal suo amore, e lontano dalla possibilità di ballare qualche tango! Si tratta di un tango dall'archivio di Marco Capurro, un signore di Genova (Italia) che ha trasferito in formato mp3, la collezione di 78 giri di suo padre.
Non ho trovato riferimenti su questo tango, ho visto solo che in una lista di vecchie registrazioni dell'autore italiano Daniele Serra del 1927 viene citato un Tormento, visto lo stile potrebbe essere questo pezzo. Le immagini sono dalla città di Asmara, che nel 1927 era la città principale dell' Eritrea; molti di edifici pubblici e privati di Asmara sono l'esempio meglio conservato dell'architettura italiana chiamato modernismo tipico degli anni 1925-1940, per qualche aspetto simile allo stile decò. Alcuni edifici sono in stile più classico, come la chiesa, altri sono capolavori di stile modernista come l'edificio FIAT (il maggior produttore automobilistico italiano) vedi al minuto 2:00. Non così fortunata la sede di Alfa Romeo ...... in quell'epoca un produttore di auto indipendente, ed ora proprietà di FIAT.
Fiat Tagliero in Asmara, Eritrea
Located in the center of Asmara, Eritrea’s capital city, is the Fiat Tagliero Service Station. Designed by famed Italian architect Giuseppe Pettazzi, this Futurist-style gas station was completed in 1938.
Asmara is the largest city in Eritrea and was incorporated as its capital by the Italians during their colonial rule of the African country. Pettazzi built many Art Deco buildings in Eritrea during this time, but this service station— modeled on airplane design as evidenced by its “wings”— is his most famous.
The Fiat Tagliero Service Station is a petrol station that includes a central tower with office space, a cashier’s desk, and a shop. The building’s flighty design is widely understood as a problematic nod to Italy’s Fascist history; it was built just months after the country’s airplanes dispensed thousands of sulfur mustard shells over Eritrea, killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians.
During construction, authorities attempted to convince the architect that the building’s wings required pillars, as a safety concern. Pettazzi refused to comply and went so far as to threaten the service station’s contractor and an unassuming construction worker with a handgun in a dramatic display of conviction standing atop his creation. Clearly, he felt the supports were not necessary, and he won the argument.
Pettazzi’s act is unsurprising, as architects who were too avant-garde for Mussolini’s Fascist Italy (and Europe in general) were sent to Asmara to design wildly imaginative buildings as a way to illustrate Italy’s idea of a modern city in their newly-taken territory. Pettazzi fit the bill.
A remarkable example of Italian modernist architecture, the Fiat Tagliero Service Station remains structurally sound to this day and has survived numerous conflicts and war. It was restored in 2003 and is unable to be altered by law. Thanks in part to this striking service station, Asmara was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2017.
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Asmara - (Eritrea) Cityscapes
Asmara (em tigrínio Asmera) é a capital e a maior cidade da Eritreia. Localiza-se a uma altitude de 2325 metros. Tem cerca de 700 mil habitantes. Era uma aldeia quando foi escolhida para capital da região, então pertencente à Etiópia, na década de 1880. Foi dominada pelos italianos entre 1889 e 1941, pelos britânicos entre 1941 e 1950 e pelos etíopes até 1993. Os produtos têxteis, os calçados, a cerâmica, a carne e a cerveja são os principais produtos de sua indústria.
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