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La Gayole
La Gayole (La Gayolle), archaeological site at La Celle near Brignoles, Var, France, with a triconch chapel and paleo-Christian sarcophagi, including the Syagria sarcophagus, found by Peiresc in 1626 and excavated 1964–1969.
La gazza ladra
La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie), Rossini's opera semiseria in two acts to a libretto by Giovanni Gherardini after La pie voleuse, premiered at La Scala, Milan, 31 May 1817; Ninetta is condemned for a silver spoon theft actually committed by a magpie, and its snare-drum overture is a concert staple.
La Gomera
La Gomera, Canary Island west of Tenerife: 370 km², 1,487 m peak, Garajonay National Park laurel forest (UNESCO 1986), Silbo Gomero whistled language, Peraza lordship from 1478, Gomeran Rebellion 1488.
La Goulette
La Goulette (Arabic: Ḥalq al-Wādī) is a coastal town and port in the northern suburbs of Tunis, at the canal linking the lake of Tunis to the Mediterranean.
La Goulue
La Goulue (Louise Weber, c. 1865/1866–1929) was a French cancan dancer, star of the Moulin Rouge in Belle Époque Paris, nicknamed for draining customers' glasses, and immortalized in Toulouse-Lautrec's 1891 poster.
La Gradiva
La Gradiva is Marine Atlan's 2026 French-Italian coming-of-age debut feature, following French high school seniors on a school trip to Naples and Pompeii. It won the Cannes Critics' Week Grand Prix and takes its title from Wilhelm Jensen's 1902 novella.
La Gran Familia Española
La Gran Familia Española (Family United), 2013 Spanish comedy by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo; a wedding during the 2010 World Cup final, five biblical-named brothers, 11 Goya nominations, two wins.
La Grand-Place, Brussels
La Grand-Place (Grote Markt), Brussels' central UNESCO World Heritage square since 1998, a late 17th-century Baroque guild-house ensemble rebuilt after the 1695 bombardment by Louis XIV's troops.
La Grande
La Grande (La Grande Rivière, Cree Tschishasipi/Chisasibi) is an 893-km river in Nord-du-Québec flowing into James Bay, backbone of the 16,527-MW La Grande hydroelectric complex built from 1973, with major diversions, mercury contamination, and Cree relocation to Chisasibi.
La Grande 1 hydroelectric plant
La Grande-1 (centrale La Grande-1) is a run-of-river hydroelectric plant on the Grande Rivière in northern Quebec, commissioned in 1994 and 1995 with 1,436 MW from twelve units.
La Grande 2A hydroelectric plant
La Grande-2-A (LG-2-A) is a reservoir-type hydroelectric station on the Grande Rivière in Quebec, owned by Hydro-Québec and commissioned in 1991–1992 with a 2,106 MW capacity.
La Grande 3 hydroelectric plant
La Grande 3 is a hydroelectric generating station on La Grande Rivière in northern Quebec, commissioned between 1982 and 1984 as part of the James Bay Project.
La Grande 4 hydroelectric plant
La Grande 4 (LG-4) is a hydroelectric generating station on the La Grande Rivière in northern Québec, operated by Hydro-Québec and commissioned between 1984 and 1986.
La Grande Bouffe
La Grande Bouffe (La grande abbuffata, The Grande Bouffe, Blow-Out) is Marco Ferreri's 1973 French-Italian black comedy in which Mastroianni, Piccoli, Noiret, and Tognazzi eat themselves to death; a Cannes 1973 scandal that won FIPRESCI.
La Grande Illusion
La Grande Illusion (Grand Illusion) is Jean Renoir's 1937 French anti-war film about French POWs in German camps in WWI, starring Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, and Erich von Stroheim, centered on class solidarity across national lines.
La Grande Maison Paris (グランメゾン・パリ)
La Grande Maison Paris (グランメゾン・パリ) is a 2024 Japanese film sequel to the drama Grand Maison Tokyo, directed by Ayuko Tsukahara, starring Takuya Kimura as chef Natsuki Obana chasing three Michelin stars in Paris, with culinary supervision by Kei Kobayashi of Restaurant KEI.
La Grande Maison Tokyo (グランメゾン東京)
La Grande Maison Tokyo (グランメゾン東京) is a 2019 TBS Sunday Theater drama starring Takuya Kimura as disgraced chef Natsuki Obana, who rebuilds a three-star French restaurant in Tokyo; written by Tsutomu Kuroiwa, directed by Ayuko Tsukahara, with 2024 special and Grand Maison Paris film sequels.
La Grande Vadrouille
La Grande Vadrouille (Don't Look Now We're Being Shot At) is a 1966 French-British comedy by Gérard Oury starring Bourvil and Louis de Funès helping downed British airmen escape occupied France; it sold 17.27 million tickets in France, a record until Titanic (1998).
La Grange (song)
"La Grange" is a 1973 song by the American rock band ZZ Top, released on Tres Hombres and named for La Grange, Texas, whose Chicken Ranch brothel it sings about.
La Granja VIP (Mexican TV series)
La Granja VIP is TV Azteca and Fremantle's Mexican version of The Farm: 16 celebrities farming for 10 weeks in 2025, 24/7 on Disney+, won by Alfredo Adame with a 2-million-peso prize.
La Graufesenque
La Graufesenque (Condatomagus), a Gallo-Roman site near Millau, Aveyron, France, at the Tarn-Dourbie confluence; the Roman Empire's largest terra sigillata (samian ware) pottery center in the 1st century, producing millions of vessels yearly, famous for bilingual Latin-Gaulish kiln firing-list graffiti.
La grazia
La grazia (The Pardon/Grace) is Paolo Sorrentino's 2025 Italian drama, his eleventh film, starring Toni Servillo as fictional President Mariano De Santis facing pardon petitions and a euthanasia bill; it opened Venice 82 and won Servillo the Coppa Volpi.
La gringa
La gringa is the title of two Spanish-language plays: a 1904 comedy by Florencio Sánchez about Gauchos and Italian immigrants, and a 1996 play by Carmen Rivera about identity.
La Grotte de la Ciotat? No—Sea caves of Baja California
The sea caves of Baja California are coastal caves carved by waves into the peninsula's rock, notable dive sites near La Paz and Cabo San Lucas.
La Guérine
La Guérine names several French places: the Domaine La Guérine restaurant (1966) in Cabriès between Aix and Marseille, a Gallo-Roman villa at Cabriès, the Cabasse necropolis, a Brittany hamlet, and Valensole gîtes.
La guerra gaucha
La guerra gaucha is a 1905 cycle of linked short stories by the Argentine writer Leopoldo Lugones, recounting the gaucho guerrilla war against Spanish royalist armies under Martín Miguel de Güemes.
La Hague reprocessing plant
The La Hague reprocessing plant is a nuclear fuel reprocessing site on the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, France, where spent fuel from French and foreign reactors is recycled.
La Haine
La Haine (Hate) is Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 French black-and-white drama about Vinz, Hubert, and Saïd, three friends in a Paris banlieue the day after a riot. It won Cannes Best Director 1995 and three Césars, including Best Film.
La Haus
La Haus is a Latin American proptech marketplace connecting homebuyers with vetted residential developers in Mexico and Colombia, founded in Medellín in 2017 by Jerónimo Uribe and three partners.
La Hire
La Hire (Étienne de Vignolles, c. 1390–1443) was a Gascon French commander of the Hundred Years' War, companion of Joan of Arc at Orléans and Patay, later bailli du Vermandois, and the jack of hearts in French playing cards.