The Mardan Palace is a luxury hotel in Lara, Antalya, Turkey. It is considered Europe's and the Mediterranean's most expensive luxury resort. It opened on May 2009 and attended by Mariah Carey, Sharon Stone, Richard Gere, Monica Bellucci, Paris Hilton, Seal, Tom Jones and the Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Some well-known football clubs like Shakhtar Donetsk and Steaua Bucharest, 2011 and respectively 2012, were guests of honor. Mardan Palace cost $1.4 billion. It has the Mediterranean's largest swimming pool within which is a sunken aquarium containing 2,400 fishes. The hotel has 560 rooms, a 12,000 sq ft 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, 160 tons of aluminium were used in the construction of the Hotel. The Alumil architectural systems that were used in the Mardan Hotel are the sliding systems Μ300 and S300, the Hinged system M11000, the Curtain wall M6 and the Atrium system M10800.