{"id":2063,"date":"2021-10-29T14:01:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T18:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2021\/10\/29\/city-of-grand-bassam-emerges-as-haven-for-artists-in-ivory-coast\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T14:01:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T18:01:59","slug":"city-of-grand-bassam-emerges-as-haven-for-artists-in-ivory-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2021\/10\/29\/city-of-grand-bassam-emerges-as-haven-for-artists-in-ivory-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Grand-Bassam emerges as haven for artists in Ivory Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In Ivory Coast, painters, photographers, designers and sculptors are choosing\u00a0to settle in the city of Grand-Bassam, away from the urban chaos and air pollution of Abidjan. The historic UNESCO World Heritage city, located an hour from the economic capital, is attracting more and more designers in search of a more serene and affordable lifestyle. As the once-popular artisanal village of Grand-Bassam grapples with a drop\u00a0in tourism, a new generation of artists from diverse backgrounds is reclaiming this\u00a0historic cultural centre and breathing new life into it. Our correspondents report.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ivory Coast, painters, photographers, designers and sculptors are choosing\u00a0to settle in the city of Grand-Bassam, away from the urban chaos and air pollution of Abidjan. The historic UNESCO World Heritage city, located an hour from the economic capital, is attracting more and more designers in search of a more serene and affordable lifestyle. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,3],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afriqueune","tag-africa","tag-afrique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}