The Mardan Palace is a luxury hotel in Lara, Antalya, Turkey, built by Azerbaijani Mountain Jewish businessman Telman Ismailov. It was opened on 23 May 2009 and attended by Mariah Carey, Sharon Stone, Richard Gere, Monica Bellucci, Paris Hilton, Seal, Tom Jones and the Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev. It's considered as Europe's and the Mediterranean's most expensive luxury resort.It cost $1.4 billion. It has the Mediterranean's largest swimming pool within which is a sunken aquarium containing 2,400 fish.The hotel has 560 rooms, a 12,000 sq ft (1,100 m2) spa, and its own beach containing 9,000 tons of sand imported from Egypt. 10,000 m2 of gold, 500,000 crystals, 23,000 m2 of Italian marble are used in the construction of the hotel. The corporate identity and website for the hotel was created by Brash Brands in Dubai, for which they received an International Design Award.
