White Marble City

In 2013 ashgabat entered the guinness world records for having the highest concentration of white marble buildings than any other city in the world.

White marble city.

In an area measuring just 22 square km in the capital ashgabat there are 543 new buildings clad with 4 5 million cubic meters of white marble. Carrara marble is a type of white or blue grey marble popular for use in sculpture and building decor. Marble city is working with only the highest quality materials. If during the soviet times the city looked more like a small russian country town today it impresses visitors with new tall buildings huge.

The white city of ashgabat. The stone is named after the town of sylacauga alabama which is sometimes called the marble city. Sylacauga marble also commonly known as alabama marble is a marble that is found in a belt running through talladega county alabama. On march 23th 2013 ashgabat was recorded on guinness as the city with the most buildings covered with white marble.

It is prized for its pure white color and its crystalline structure. Affordable granite kitchen countertop installer and fabricator in bay area ca. Ashgabat the capital of energy rich turkmenistan has been recognized by guinness world records as having the world s highest density of buildings made from white marble. Halk hakydasy memorial complex t he memorial complex also known as people s memory opened on october 6 2014 on turkmenistan memorial day.

Subsidies on gas water and petrol went some way to placating the population in 2005 petrol cost 2c a liter but as his city of white marble rose from the desert funding for education was. Sylacauga marble has been called the world s whitest. Marble city company offers marble and granite countertops recycled glass and quartz countertops for your kitchen and vanity. The arch features a panoramic viewing platform pretty cool to get an aerial view of the regimented lines of trees garden design and white marble.