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 ...

ASMARA, Eritrea—In one of Africa’s most isolated and picturesque capitals, little is what it seems. Cloistered for decades by war and a reclusive policy of self-reliance, Asmara is a study in ...

ON A dusty road leading travellers out of the southern outskirts of Asmara stands a small service station. Once owned by AGIP, an Italian petrol company, it was for decades the last place to fill up ...

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 ...

But emigration, death and revolution have changed all of that. Now Mr Cohen is the last Jew native to Asmara still in the city. He looks after both the synagogue and the cemetery because there is ...

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 ...

Asmara has a functional, accessible, responsive and safe public transportation system. The huge investment in public transport and infrastructure such as roads has made people's lives easier. The ...

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