Asmara was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its extraordinary concentration of 1930s Italian Art Deco and Modernist buildings, earning it the nickname "Africa's Rome."
Record no. MRB-2026-006937
World's Best-Preserved Modernist Architecture City
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