Our trip to Eritrea gets to a bad start, but it was hard not to get charmed by the city's architecture and friendly people.
Learn how to travel to Eritrea, what cities to visit, what attractions to see, and what to expect as a tourist in this Eritrea travel guide.
Asmara © Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com
Asmara is the capital of Eritrea, and became an Art Deco laboratory during the 1930s, rationalism, Novecento, neo-Classicism, neo-Baroque and monumentalism are among the varied avant-garde styles that still can be seen there, the result today is hundreds of aging, sherbet-colored buildings that are still standing in the former italian quarter © Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com
A modernist metropolis in the middle of the African desert. Eritrea finally opens to the world and its capital city, Asmara, is an architecture fan’s dreamland.
Massawa, also known as Mitsiwa or Massaoua is a port city on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea, important for many centuries, it has been colonised by Egypt, the turkish Ottoman Empire, Italy, England and was finally part of Ethiopia until the independence of Eritrea in 1991 after a long war, the old town is still full of old houses, but many are in ruins, as heavy fights took place between eritrean and ethiopian armies; Massawa is the place to reach the Dalhak archipelago © Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com
© Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com
Massawa, also known as Mitsiwa or Massaoua is a port city on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea, important for many centuries, it has been colonised by Egypt, the turkish Ottoman Empire, Italy, England and was finally part of Ethiopia until the independence of Eritrea in 1991 after a long war, the old town is still full of old houses, but many are in ruins, as heavy fights took place between eritrean and ethiopian armies; Massawa is the place to reach the Dalhak archipelago © Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com
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