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La Rambla, Barcelona
La Rambla (Les Rambles), Barcelona's 1.2 km emblematic boulevard from Plaça de Catalunya to the old port, built over a 13th-century wall canal, with five named sections, Canaletes fountain, Boqueria, Liceu, and a 2027 renovation.
La Raza
La Raza ("the race," also "the people") is a Spanish term for Hispanophone populations as a mixed people, from Vasconcelos's La Raza Cósmica (1925); central to Chicano identity, La Raza Unida Party, and the Chicago newspaper La Raza.
La realidad y el deseo
La realidad y el deseo (The Reality and the Desire) is the complete poetry of Spanish poet Luis Cernuda, first published in Madrid in 1936 and expanded to 1964.
La Rebelión Norteña
La Rebelión Norteña is a long-running norteño group on the Discos Cintas Acuario label, recording corridos and rancheras from its 1996 debut El Pájaro Carpintero to 2023.
La Recoleta Cemetery
La Recoleta Cemetery (Cementerio de la Recoleta), Buenos Aires' first public cemetery, founded 1822 on Recollect monks' land, designed by Próspero Catelin; over 4,500 vaults, 90+ national monuments, Eva Perón's tomb.
La Reezy
La Reezy (Khayree Salahuddin) is a New Orleans rapper, producer, and 2026 XXL Freshman whose debut album Skiddle Bandana (July 2026) and UTH youth brand distinguish him from other artists named Reezy.
La Reforma
La Reforma, or the Liberal Reform, was a period of Mexican history, 1855 to 1876, when liberal governments led by Benito Juárez separated church and state.
La Regenta
La Regenta is an 1885 novel by the Spanish writer Leopoldo Alas, known as Clarín, telling of Ana Ozores and set in Vetusta, a portrait of Oviedo.
La Reina del Sur (TV series)
La Reina del Sur is a 2011 Telemundo telenovela adapted from Arturo Pérez-Reverte's 2002 novel, starring Kate del Castillo as trafficker Teresa Mendoza; 63 episodes, two Emmys for season 2, and the source of USA's Queen of the South remake.
La Reine Margot (1994 film)
La Reine Margot (1994), Patrice Chéreau's French historical drama adapted from Dumas, starring Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Virna Lisi; Cannes Prix du jury, five 1995 Césars, two cuts.
La Renga
La Renga is an Argentine hard rock band formed in 1988 in Mataderos, Buenos Aires, known for self-managing its career and playing stadium-scale shows without sponsors.
La Révolution
La Révolution is a 2020 French Netflix alternate-history horror series by Aurélien Molas and Gaïa Guasti: in 1787, Joseph Guillotin discovers the Blue Blood virus infecting the aristocracy; 8 episodes, canceled after one season.
La Révolution surréaliste
La Révolution surréaliste was the official periodical of the surrealist movement, published in Paris in twelve irregularly spaced issues between December 1924 and December 1929.
La Revue blanche
La Revue blanche was a French literary and artistic periodical of anarchist and Dreyfusard sympathies, founded in 1889 and published in Paris from 1891 to 1903.
La Revue de Paris
La Revue de Paris was a French literary review founded in Paris in 1829 by Louis-Désiré Véron, which serialized Balzac and Flaubert's Madame Bovary and appeared until 1970.
La revue du praticien
La Revue du Praticien (Revue du praticien) is a French continuing medical education journal founded in Paris in 1951, published monthly by Global Média Santé in two titles including Médecine Générale, MEDLINE-indexed since 1972.
La Revue indépendante
La Revue indépendante was a French literary and political review published in Paris from November 1841 to February 1848, founded by Pierre Leroux, George Sand, and Louis Viardot.
La Revue Indigène
La Revue Indigène was a monthly Haitian literary magazine published in Port-au-Prince from July 1927 to early 1928, the principal organ of the indigéniste literary movement.
La Rinconada, Peru
La Rinconada, a gold-mining settlement in Ananea, Puno, Peru, at about 5,100 m, the world's highest permanent settlement; informal mining, cachorreo labor, mercury pollution, and minimal state services distinguish it.
La Rioja Province
La Rioja Province (Provincia de La Rioja), northwest Argentina; capital La Rioja city, founded 1591. 383,865 people (2022), 89,680 km², semi-arid; Talampaya UNESCO site; governor Ricardo Quintela; chachos quasi-currency 2024.
La Riviera (music)
La Riviera is a concert hall and nightclub in Madrid, Spain, opened in 1958 beside the Manzanares river and hosting pop, rock, and Latin touring acts.
La Roca
La Roca names several unrelated venues: La Roca Multiaventura adventure park in Palencia, Spain; La Roca Boulders gym in Melbourne; La Roca FC soccer club in Utah; and Parque Roca in Buenos Aires.
La Roche-Guyon
La Roche-Guyon is a village of about 400 inhabitants in Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, on a meander of the Seine beneath chalk cliffs. It is the only Plus Beaux Villages de France village in Île-de-France, with a troglodytic castle, 12th-century donjon, and Rohan chapel bas-reliefs.
La Roche-Maurice
La Roche-Maurice (Ar Roc'h-Morvan), Finistère commune in Brittany near Landerneau, known for the Roc'h Morvan castle ruins, its 16th-century Saint-Yves parish close with Ankou ossuary, and the Gallo-Roman Valy-Cloître villa.
La Rochelle
La Rochelle, Atlantic port city in Charente-Maritime, France; founded 10th century, recorded as Rupella in 961. Known for its medieval towers, the 1627-1628 Great Siege under Richelieu, the Grand Port Maritime, and major tourism.
La Romana, La Romana
La Romana, city and head municipality of La Romana province, Yuma region, Dominican Republic. Sugar-built town (Central Romana mill, 1917), port since 1954, home to Casa de Campo; 139,238 residents (2022).
La Ronde
La Ronde (1950) is Max Ophuls's French film adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's play Reigen, a circular chain of ten love affairs in 1900 Vienna narrated by Anton Walbrook, starring Simone Signoret, and censored in the United States.
La rosa de Guadalupe
La rosa de Guadalupe: Mexican Televisa anthology series created by Carlos Mercado Orduña, produced by Miguel Ángel Herros, airing since 5 February 2008 on Las Estrellas; stand-alone episodes end with a Virgen de Guadalupe miracle marked by a white rose; exported to 15 countries, over 1,970 episodes.
La Rosita power station
La Rosita power station is a natural gas-fired combined-cycle complex near Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. Operating since 2003, it generates up to 1,233 MW for Baja California and California.
La route des epices
La route des épices names two board games: Sentosphère's 1999 olfactory spice-trading game by Debroise and Lucas (As d'Or 1999), and Century: La Route des Épices, Emerson Matsuuchi's 2017 Plan B Games card game.