Description

The Travertine Noce is one of the most known Travertines in Turkey. It is a beige/dark brown brown coloured natural stone, with slight variations in terms of beige colour tones. It can present some darker shaded areas, as well as some white coloured ones. It is characterized by its natural holes, which is part of the Travertine structure.

The Travertine Noce can be mostly found in two forms:
- Cross cut: where the slabs are cut agains the veinage. This gives a surface with no veinage but instead a surface composed by shades with different tones.
- Vein cut: where the slabs are cut in favour of the natural veinage of this stone. This type of Travertine presents a well defined parallel veinage with a strong brown colour.

The pictures below represent a high grade Travertine Noce (both cross cut and vein cut). Lower grades of Travertine Noce normally present even more holes, darker coloured areas and black spots. In short, it is not as clean and uniform as shown on the pictures below.

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Location

The Travertine Noce is mostly explored around the town of Akkoy, which is located close to the city of Denizli in the Denizli province. Denizli is located in the southwest of Turkey at about 625 kilometers south of Istambul and at about 450 kilometers southwest of the capital city of Ankara.

Denizli is located at the eastern end of the alluvial valley formed by the river Buyuk Menderes and is part of Turkey southwestern Aegean region.