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{"id":511,"date":"2014-11-26T18:45:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T17:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/?p=511"},"modified":"2016-02-29T16:28:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T15:28:06","slug":"cholamandal-artists-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/cholamandal-artists-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Cholamandal artists&#8217; village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The village of Cholamandal<\/strong> is located between Mahabalipuram (40km) and Chennai (20km). It is a co-op of artists. You\u2019ll find a large variety of paintings and craft on wood, steal or copper of quality, in a large exhibition room.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":2,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/yoga-ashtanga.net\\\/en\\\/cholamandal-artists-village\\\/\",\"likes_blog_id\":false}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-511 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/cholamandal-artists-village\/cholamandal-artists-village_a\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Cholamandal-artists-village_a-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"513\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Cholamandal-artists-village_a.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"5472,3648\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 6D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1407323946&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Cholamandal artists&#8217; 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village_h\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Cholamandal-artists-village_h-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Cholamandal-artists-village_h-1024x682.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nearby is little caf\u00e9 serving pastry in a lovely garden, the <strong>\u00ab\u00a0Garden Restaurent, Shiraz\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Garden-Restaurent-Shiraz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-532\" src=\"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Garden-Restaurent-Shiraz-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Garden Restaurent, Shiraz\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Garden-Restaurent-Shiraz-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Garden-Restaurent-Shiraz.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cholamanda is 50 minutes from Mah\u0101balipuram (40km) by car. You can take the bus to Madras (Chennai).<\/p>\n<p>* Cholamandal an Artist\u2019s Village, edited by Josef James, Oxford University Press, Chennai India. ISBN 019 566988 6<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Book-Cholamandal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-512\" src=\"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Book-Cholamandal-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cholamandal\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Book-Cholamandal-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Book-Cholamandal.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Website\u00a0: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cholamandalartistsvillage.in\">www.cholamandalartistsvillage.in<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The village of Cholamandal is located between Mahabalipuram (40km) and Chennai (20km). It is a co-op of artists. You\u2019ll find a large variety of paintings and craft on wood, steal or copper of quality, in a large exhibition room. &nbsp; Inside this complex, there is a souvenir shop where you can get the excellent book, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[251,53,197,1449,250,1442,211,253,252,1460],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-areas-interest-india","tag-artists","tag-ashtanga","tag-bronze","tag-chennai","tag-cholamandal","tag-mahabalipuram","tag-paintings","tag-stone-sculptures","tag-village","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}