The Italian architecture that shaped new world heritage site Asmara

First planned in the 1910s by the Italian architect-engineer Odoardo Cavagnari, Asmara was lavishly furnished with new buildings after Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, when the sleepy colonial town was transformed into Africa’s most modern metropolis. As the “little Rome” at the centre of Italy’s planned African empire, it became a playground for Italian architects to experiment.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/08/the-italian-architecture-that-shaped-new-world-heritage-site-asmara