The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972.[1] Eritrea accepted the convention, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. As of 2023, Eritrea has only one World Heritage Sites.[2]

Location of sites

Location of World Heritage Sites in  Eritrea

List of sites

Name Image Location Criteria Year Description
Asmara: A Modernist African City Central Region

15°19′22″N 38°55′30″E / 15.322778°N 38.925°E / 15.322778; 38.925 (Asmara: A Modernist African City)

 Cultural (ii) (iv) 2017 Located at over 2,000 m above sea level, the capital of Eritrea developed from the 1890s onwards as a military outpost for the Italian colonial power. After 1935, Asmara underwent a large scale programme of construction applying the Italian rationalist idiom of the time to governmental edifices, residential and commercial buildings, churches, mosques, synagogues, cinemas, hotels, etc. The property encompasses the area of the city that resulted from various phases of planning between 1893 and 1941, as well as the indigenous unplanned neighbourhoods of Arbate Asmera and Abbashawel. It is an exceptional example of early modernist urbanism at the beginning of the 20th century and its application in an African context.[3]

Tentative List

SiteImageLocationCriteriaArea
ha (acre)
Year of submissionDescription
Qohaito Cultural Landscape Debub Region 14°52′43″N 39°25′38″E / 14.878611°N 39.427222°E / 14.878611; 39.427222 (Qohaito Cultural Landscape) Cultural (iii) (v) 2011 [4]

References

  1. ↑ "The World Heritage Convention". UNESCO. Retrieved December 11, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Eritrea". UNESCO. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Asmara: A Modernist African City". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2023-11-20. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO (CC BY 3.0 IGO) license.
  4. ↑ "Qohaito Cultural Landscape". UNESCO World Heritage Centre (in French). Retrieved 2023-11-20.
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