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Cinema Impero, Asmara

1937 · Asmara · Maekel · Eritrea

Modern · architecture

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Cinema Impero on Harnet Avenue, Asmara's grandest Art Deco cinema of 1937, its facade a grid of porthole lamps between fluted piers.

Place: Asmara · Maekel · Eritrea
Date: 1937
Structure or site: Architecture & ruins
Holding: Wikimedia Commons

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Wikimedia Commons category — Cinema Impero catalogue
Wikimedia Commons — Asmara, cinema impero, 01 photograph
Wikimedia Commons — Cinema Impero, Asmara photograph
UNESCO World Heritage listing — Asmara: A Modernist African City heritage_listing

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