{"id":6084,"date":"2026-10-11T08:11:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T06:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-toscana.com\/sept22\/?p=6084"},"modified":"2026-10-11T14:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T12:11:53","slug":"the-ciocca-hotel-ingresso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-toscana.com\/sept22\/the-ciocca-hotel-ingresso\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ciocca Hotel Ingresso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Terracotta pots, pink stucco rendering and a pan-tiled roof; unmistakably Italian. Having lived in Italy for 20 years, our eyes are so used to these beautiful features of Italian architecture that it is good to be reminded how lovely they are when looking at an image like this one. Our guests at Art Toscana Art Vacations in Italy, never miss an opportunity to incorporate these features in their painting and drawings as you can see in the gallery pages of our website www.art-toscana.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/art-toscana.com\/sept22\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20260919_165559-1024x462.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/art-toscana.com\/sept22\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20260919_165559-1024x462.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/art-toscana.com\/sept22\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20260919_165559-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/art-toscana.com\/sept22\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20260919_165559-200x90.jpg 200w, https:\/\/art-toscana.com\/sept22\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20260919_165559-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/art-toscana.com\/sept22\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20260919_165559-1536x692.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/art-toscana.com\/sept22\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20260919_165559-2048x923.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terracotta pots, pink stucco rendering and a pan-tiled roof; unmistakably Italian. 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Our guests at Art Toscana Art<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/art-toscana.com\/sept22\/the-ciocca-hotel-ingresso\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[113,74,29],"class_list":["post-6084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-art-in-barga","tag-barga-artist","tag-painting-holidays-in-italy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Ciocca Hotel Ingresso | Art Vacations in Italy | Art Toscana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Terracotta pots, pink stucco and pan-tiled roofs \u2014 the unmistakably Italian architecture our art vacation guests love to paint around Barga, Tuscany.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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