The Governor's Palace is the

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. It was built during the colonial period in the city centre, in an

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style.

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The former Italian government's palace was built in 1897 by

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, the first Italian governor of Eritrea (now it is the Asmara President's Office). The Gibi, as it is known, was converted into the Museum of Asmara during the

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n administration, when the Governor's Palace was moved to its present building. The current city hall was built during the 1930s in typical

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style (called ''Littorio''), with a central tower at the entrance adorned with "Fasci" (destroyed in March 1941, when the city was conquered by the British). It is located next to the Court House and the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Eritrea, in the central section of Asmara that has been named a ''World Heritage Site'' by the

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in 2017.

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The Asmara City Hall appeared on Asmara's last

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, which were issued in 1960.

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Bibliography

* Edward Denison, Guang Yu Ren, Naigzy Gebremedhin and Guang Yu Ren. ''Asmara: Africa's secret modernist city'' New York, 2003 () * Antoinette Jeanson, Paul-Antoine Martin. ''Asmara, la petite Rome africaine''. Paris, 2015 ()

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