Between the Karakum desert in Central Asia, capital of Turkmenistan, Ashgabat emerged.This is a big city with buildings completely made of marble.
Located at the edge of the Karakum desert, Ashgabat is a modern city shines with a strange glare.Pictures often see here is the marble building with wide boulevards area, covered in yellow roof has unusual architecture with gardens are cared for, fountains, monuments are lit up. On appearance, the city no less than Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the Middle East.
Ashgabat has entered the Guinness Book in 2013 because many buildings are built of marble in the world. Although the city only 22km wide square, where there are 543 buildings are built with 4.5 million cubic meters of imported Italian marble. Above the Entertainment Centre Alem, who was the largest ferris wheel in the world closed are recorded in the Guinness Book of 2012. The government has spent more than 315 million Turkmenistan manat (ie around 90 million US dollars) to build.
At night, the white building in the city of Ashgabat was lit by colored lights and lots of well lit boulevards. Pictured is stiffer ceremony, every minute in the evening, this place always changes color from red to green to blue.
Ashgabat city also has many laws and customs are strange President Niyazov applied. He did not forbid men to have long hair and beard, banned opera, chase the dog out of the city and named the months of the year under the name of his family members. Guests are not allowed photography Presidential Palace and other government buildings.
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