Asmara , the capital metropolis of Eritrea , was an Italian dependency between 1890 and 1941 . The city was dwell by a gravid Italian community ( 53,000 of 98,000 inhabitants in 1939 ) , so the computer architecture is a unequalled blending of Italian modernness and Eritrean stylus . Here are the most amazing examples .
The city centre was rebuild in various styles during the compound decades : Neo - Romanesque , Late Victorian , Art Deco , Cubist , Rationalist , Novecento and Neo - Baroque , among others .
This Modernist urban center in Africa was also a dream of Benito Mussolini , because he believed it would become the uppercase of the Second Roman Empire .
The city from above
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Hotel Albergo Italia – this was the best in the city when it opened in 1899
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A villa built in 1910
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The Cathedral of Asmara, built in the Lombard-Romanesque style, with a Gothic tower, inaugurated in 1922
Fascist Party Headquarters, built in 1928
Cinema Impero, an Art Deco-style cinema designed in Mario Messina, built in 1937
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Fiat Tagliero building, an airplane-shaped Futurist Style petrol and service station, designed by Guiseppe Pettazzi, completed in 1938. It has 98ft (30 m) long concrete wings on each side.
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Cinema Augustus, 1938
The Old Bristol pension
A service station designed by Carlo Marchi and Carlo Montalbetti in the 1930s
The former City Sanitation Office, now a garage
The Nda Mariam Orthodox Church, with an impressive mosaic by the Italian painter Nenne Sanguineti Poggi during the 1950s
Cinema Roma
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Asmara Town Hall
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Villa Venezia
A bowling alley built in the 1950s to entertain American troops stationed in the city
A mosaic on a cotton factory
Odeon Cinema
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IRGA building, constructed in 1961, designed by Carlo Mazzetti
Inside the Central Post Office
An Art Deco villa, now used as the World Bank Building in the country
On the streets
( viaDavid Stanley , Charles Roffey , Carsten ten Brink , Kate Brownandfofto SU foto )
Bonus: People watching a football game inside the television room of Casa degli Italiani, a restaurant in Asmara
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