非洲的现代主义城市:阿斯马拉

Located at over 2000 metres above sea level, the capital of Eritrea developed from the 1890’s onwards as a military outpost for the Italian colonial power. After 1935, Asmara underwent a large scale programme of construction applying the Italian rationalist idiom of the time to governmental edifices, residential and commercial buildings, churches, mosques, synagogues, cinemas, hotels, etc. The property encompasses the area of the city that resulted from various phases of planning between 1893 and 1941, as well as the indigenous unplanned neighbourhoods of Arbate Asmera and Abbashawel. It is an exceptional example of early modernist urbanism at the beginning of the 20th century and its application in an African context.

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国别	厄立特里亚 Eritrea
中文名称	非洲的现代主义城市:阿斯马拉
英文名称	Asmara: a Modernist City of Africa
遗产类别	文化遗产
登录年份	2017
选入标准	(ii)(iv)