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The A75 is an autoroute (motorway) in France. Autoroute is a French word meaning, literally, a motor road, and corresponding to the words motorway or freeway in English. ... Motorway mark in Europe A motorway (in the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand and some Commonwealth nations) is both a type of road and a classification. ...


Known also as la Méridienne, it is a developmental project with the aim of speeding up and reducing the cost of car travel from Paris southwards, and it is entirely free for the 340 km (210 miles) between Clermont-Ferrand and Béziers. (except for the bridge) The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure). ... See mile - unit of measurement (distance) Miles Aircraft Ltd - UK manufacturer of light and military aircraft Miles Tails Prower - a fictional fox Miles Davis was an American jazz composer and trumpeter and was one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the 20th century. ... Clermont-Ferrand is a city of France, in the Auvergne region, with a population of approximately 140,000. ... Béziers (Besièrs in Occitan) is a city in Languedoc, in the southwest of France. ...


It passes over the Tarn River on the Millau Viaduct, which was constructed under a government contract with the Eiffage group, effective for 75 years. Eiffage will impose tolls at agreed upon rates: about 4.90 for light automobiles, excluding the peak months of July and August (€6.50). The Tarn River (from the Latin tarnis meaning rapid or walled in) is a 375 kilometre (235 miles) long tributary river of the Garonne, and flows through the départements of Lozère (Languedoc-Roussillon région), Aveyron, and then the eponymous Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne départements, the... Millau viaduct in France, currently the worlds tallest vehicular bridge. ... The euro (€; ISO 4217 code EUR, Unicode U+20AC) is the currency of twelve European Union member states: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain, collectively known as the Eurozone/Euroland. ...



 
 

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