Asmara
Writer Michela Wrong discusses the beautiful Italianate buildings and futurist constructions in Asmara, capital of Eritrea.
It's over the mountains, it has no major roads, it's too dangerous, or tourists don't get it at all. Five writers with a desire for travel or living elsewhere, recall a city that once captured their hearts and minds for reasons of secrecy or isolation, or simply being off limits.
Travel writer Michela Wrong sees beautiful Italianate buildings, and all things Futurist - in Africa. In Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, to be precise.
Producer Duncan Minshull
First broadcast in April 2013.
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