Operas and theaters to visit Asmara

Built in 1920 and then transformed into a cinema in the 1930 s, before being sold in 1957 to a family member of Haïlié Selassie, this is still a theatre. There are few performances and the building would need a renovation. Nevertheless, Roman architecture keeps all its stamp with its arcade gallery, which is accessed by a stone staircase in the form of a horseshoe, in a green setting reminiscent of Mediterranean gardens. If you have the opportunity to enter, you will see the ceiling of the show room a beautiful fresco of eight women making the round, surrounded by a decorative frise with eight peacocks.