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Festival Eritrea Asmara in Asmara
Asmara's largest annual cultural festival, held over about ten days each summer at the Asmara Expo Grounds and tracing its roots to cultural gatherings organized during the 1980s independence struggle. Expect performances, food, and craft from all nine of Eritrea's ethnic nationalities in one concentrated fairground setting.
Festival Eritrea is Asmara's largest annual cultural gathering, staged over roughly ten days each summer at the Asmara Expo Grounds and drawing crowds that press against the several-hundred-thousand mark, making it by far the country's biggest single public event outside the political calendar.