12 Greek Mythic Marbles
Architecture
Veria Green
Perseus
Hephaestus
Volakas Haemus
Thasos Snowhite
Draco
Centaur Nessus
In Greek, GREECE is called HELLAS. A
word consisted of two ancient ones:
"HEL" which is the root of an ancient
Greek word meaning "shining" (Hel-ios =
Sun), "LAS" which is the ancient Greek
word for "stone”. The ancient Greeks
named their country: HEL-LAS = Shining
Stone.
The History of Greek Marble begins many
thousands of years ago...From ancient times Greek
sculptors and architects achieved to create marble
masterpieces that stand through the centuries.
Nowadays Greece produces a variety of unique
marble. Greek Marble is considered as top level
architectural material and has been used by
constructors throughout the world.
In Greece Marble can be found throughout the
country. High quality marble are being quarried
from the Mainland and from the Islands. The area
presentation introduces the types of the marble
which are being quarried in each territory.
Titanium black
Mythological association of a region with the marbles extracted there.