Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 19:18:02 -0700
http://cyberadal.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/capasmara-eritrea-a-forgotten-piece-of-italy-in-africa/
Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea, was an Italian colony between 1890 and
1941. The city was populated by a large Italian community (53,000 of 98,000
inhabitants in 1939), so the architecture is a unique blend of Italian
modernism and Eritrean style. Here are the most amazing examples.
The city center was rebuilt in various styles during the colonial decades:
Neo-Romanesque, Late Victorian, Art Deco, Cubist, Rationalist, Novecento
and Neo-Baroque, among others.
This Modernist city in Africa was also a dream of Benito Mussolini, because
he believed it would become the capital of the Second Roman Empire.
Ibrahim I. Suliman
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