ATLAS · WORLD HERITAGE · ERITREA
World Heritage Sites in Eritrea
Eritrea has 1 site on UNESCO’s World Heritage List — 1 cultural. Below: how they split by type, and the headline sites. From UNESCO’s official list, snapshot 2026-06-22.
SITES1
CULTURAL · NATURAL1 · 0
IN DANGER0
By heritage type
Cultural1 · 100%
Natural0 · 0%
Mixed0 · 0%
Notable sites in Eritrea
A spread of the country’s heritage — the rarer mixed and natural sites first, then its earliest inscriptions.
culturalAsmara: A Modernist African City2017
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,…