These stones, extremely resistant and durable, have been widely used in construction for thousands of years.

Walls were built using local stones, including limestone, granite, sandstone and quartzite. These walls were employed for all kinds of construction work, from building extravagant and monumental buildings to building retaining walls in civil engineering for dividing land holdings. Numerous types of wall stones exist in terms of product durability, resistance to water penetration and the capacity of being worked into uniform shapes before construction.

In contemporary buildings, wall stones can be produced through the mmechanical splitting of natural and shapeless stone or from blocks of sawn stone in order to obtain custom elements.