The Cinema Impero, an example of Italian rationalist architecture in Asmara, Eritrea (1937). The city of Asmara, the current capital of Eritrea, was reshaped as a ‘little Rome’, with a process of urbanization and modernization characterised by a Modernist architectural style that was declared in 2017 a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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