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La Casa Azul (group)

La Casa Azul is a Spanish indie pop project from Barcelona, created and led by Guille Milkyway, who composes, produces, and records all of its music alone.

La Casa de Bernarda Alba (1987 film)

La casa de Bernarda Alba (1987), Mario Camus's Spanish film adaptation of Lorca's final play, starring Irene Gutiérrez Caba and Ana Belén; premiered 3 April 1987, opened Cannes Un certain regard, and was critically panned.

La casa de cartón

La casa de cartón is a 1928 short narrative work by the Peruvian poet Martín Adán, recounting an adolescent's summer in the Lima district of Barranco.

La casa de los conejos

La casa de los conejos is an autobiographical novel by Franco-Argentine writer Laura Alcoba about her childhood in a clandestine Montoneros house in La Plata in 1975 and 1976.

La casa de los famosos México season 2

Season 2 of La casa de los famosos México, also called LCDLFM 2024, ran 21 July to 29 September 2024 with 15 celebrities. Mario Bezares won the 4 million peso prize after 71 days; Karime Pindter was runner-up amid the Adrián Marcelo controversy.

La casa de los famosos México season 3

La casa de los famosos México season 3 was a 2025 Mexican reality show that ran from July to October. Influencer Aldo de Nigris won the season.

La casa de los famosos México season 4

Fourth season (2026) of the Mexican celebrity reality show La casa de los famosos México: premiered July 26 on Las Estrellas, 18 housemates, 10 weeks, hosted by Galilea Montijo; Mariana Ochoa won four million pesos amid fraud accusations.

La casa de los famosos season 6

La Casa de los Famosos season 6 (LCDLF6), Telemundo reality competition, aired February 17 to June 11, 2026, hosted by Jimena Gállego and Javier Poza; 26 celebrities competed for $200,000 and Fabio Agostini won, with the finale drawing 1.8 million viewers.

La Catalina

La Catalina (Catalina García, born 2000, Santiago) is a Chilean professional wrestler, "La Diva del Ring"; first Chilean woman signed by WWE (2019), former CMLL Universal Amazonas champion, and current AAA Reina de Reinas Champion.

La Catedral

La Catedral: prison built in Envigado, Colombia, by Pablo Escobar under his 1991 surrender deal with the Gaviria government; he lived there in luxury for 13 months before escaping in July 1992; site now disputed by religious foundations.

La cautiva

La cautiva is a long narrative poem by the Argentine writer Esteban Echeverría, published in 1837 and considered the initial moment of Romanticism in the Río de la Plata.

La Caza

La caza (The Hunt) is Carlos Saura's 1966 Spanish Civil War drama, written with Angelino Fons and produced by Elías Querejeta, about three veterans whose rabbit hunt on a former battleground ends in violence; it won the 1966 Berlin Silver Bear for Best Director.

La Cecchina

La Cecchina, or Torraccio della Cecchina (Tomba di Spuntapiedi), is a two-story Roman temple-tomb of red and yellow brick on the Via Nomentana, Rome, mid-2nd century, later a medieval guard tower.

La Ceiba

La Ceiba, Honduras: Caribbean port city and capital of Atlántida department, founded c. 1835, banana port of Standard Fruit, now ecotourism hub near Pico Bonito, home of the May carnival, about 229,000 people.

La Celestina

La Celestina (Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea) is a 1499 Spanish dialogue novel attributed to Fernando de Rojas, telling of the bawd Celestina, Calisto, and Melibea; a European bestseller in over 200 early editions, translated into Italian, German, French, Dutch, and English.

La Celle

La Celle, a common French toponym from Latin cella (hermitage, sanctuary), names villages that grew around early churches; notable examples include the Var abbey, Vernou-la-Celle tufa site, and Genainville.

La Celsa

La Celsa (Mausoleo La Celsa) is a Roman mausoleum on the Saxa Rubra cliff along Rome's via Flaminia, a cylindrical drum on a parallelepiped base with an earthen mound, exedra, and cistern, probably of the Ostoria family, later a medieval fortress, now closed to the public.

La Centinela

La Centinela, also called Huaca La Centinela, is a large adobe archaeological complex near Chincha Baja, Peru, that served as capital of the Chincha kingdom.

La Cérémonie

La Cérémonie (1995) is Claude Chabrol's French-German thriller adapted from Ruth Rendell's A Judgement in Stone, starring Sandrine Bonnaire and Isabelle Huppert as a maid and postmistress who murder their employers; both won the Venice Volpi Cup, and Huppert won a 1996 César.

La Chanson de Craonne

La Chanson de Craonne is a French anti-militarist soldiers' song of World War I, sung at the front between 1915 and 1917 and banned in France from 1917.

La Chanson du mal-aimé

La Chanson du mal-aimé is a long lyric poem by Guillaume Apollinaire, first published in 1909 and included in Alcools in 1913, expressing the grief of an abandoned lover.

La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz

La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz (Chapel-Felgeriz) is a commune of about 4,700 people in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, near Rennes, in Rennes Métropole, known for a 2022 Inrap excavation of a Gallo-Roman sanctuary with two temples and a necropolis.

La Charanga Habanera

La Charanga Habanera is a Cuban timba and dance orchestra founded in Havana in 1988 and led since 1992 by violinist David Calzado, known for "Me sube la fiebre."

La Chascona

La Chascona (also Chicochao, Chisqui-Chasque) is a traditional Canarian two-player alignment board game with nine pieces per player, documented especially in Fuerteventura, related to nine men's Morris; forming three in line captures an opponent's piece.

La Chastelaine de Vergi

La Chastelaine de Vergi, also known as La Châtelaine de Vergy, is an anonymous Old French verse romance of the mid-13th century, about a secret love affair whose exposure destroys everyone.

La Chaussée-Tirancourt

La Chaussée-Tirancourt, long known as the Camp de César, is a fortified archaeological site on the Somme near Amiens in northern France, with Neolithic, Iron Age, and Roman occupation.

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning (French: urbanisme horloger) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of 2009 comprising two neighboring Swiss Jura towns whose layout was shaped by watchmaking.

La Chèvre

La Chèvre (The Goat) is Francis Veber's 1981 French-Mexican comedy starring Pierre Richard as unlucky accountant François Perrin and Gérard Depardieu as detective Campana, first of their trilogy, with 7,079,836 French admissions.

La Chica o El Mundo

La Chica o El Mundo (The Girl or the World) is the ninth episode and season-one finale of Pluribus, released on Apple TV December 24, 2025; written by Tatlock and Smith, directed by Smith, ending with Carol and an atom bomb.

La Chienne

La Chienne (The Bitch) is Jean Renoir's 1931 French drama, his second sound film, adapted from Georges de la Fouchardière's novel. Michel Simon plays a clerk-painter exploited by Lulu and her pimp Dédé; Fritz Lang remade it as Scarlet Street (1945).