Eritrea

Eritrea Travel Guide - Travel tips and holiday advice featuring Asmara hotels and restaurants, food, Italian influence, modernist architecture, coast and mountains, and birdwatching. Also covering cycling and diving, history and ancient sites, steam railway, archaeology, Dahlak Archipelago, the palace of the Queen of Sheba and Massawa.

Edward Denison is an Associate Professor of Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and a heritage consultant, writer, and photographer. His expertise on Eritrea draws on nearly a quarter of century of personal and professional experience. He has written the previous two editions of the Bradt guide to Eritrea and has been involved in numerous projects promoting Eritrea's cultural and architectural heritage, including books, exhibitions, workshops and tours. From 2001 he worked for the Cultural Assets Rehabilitation Project, co-authoring Asmara - Africa's Secret Modernist City (Merrell) with colleagues in 2003. In 2008, he helped initiate a 5m European Union Heritage Project and from 2014 he worked with the Asmara Heritage Project (AHP), preparing Asmara's successful Nomination Dossier for inscription on UNESCO's World Heritage List. In 2016, this work won the RIBA President's Medal for Research: