The children play soccer on the outskirts of Gondar, Ethiopia (photo)

The children play soccer on the outskirts of Gondar, Ethiopia. Gondar gained such cultural and economic importance that it was the capital of the kingdom of Ethiopia until the late nineteenth century, when the power of the emperors began to decline, and was burned on several occasions. . Its peculiar history has its origin when an emperor of Ethiopia, call Alam Sagaz, also known like Fasilidas constructed in 1632 the first castle in a village located next to Lake Tana and to the mountains Simen, tired of that nomadic life, and to be able to rest During the rainy season. To this refuge of the emperor were added constructions of the royalty and castles of later emperors, creating an imperial citadel called Fasil Ghebi, within the own city.