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The right bank of a river is the bank on the right when looking in the direction of flow towards the sea.


The Right Bank (Rive Droite) is most commonly associated with the Seine in central Paris. Here the river flows roughly westwards, cutting the city into two halves; the Right Bank, to the north, and the Left Bank, to the south. This article is about the river in France. ... The neutrality and factual accuracy of this article are disputed. ... The left bank of a river is the bank on the left when looking in the direction of flow towards the sea. ...


Like the Left Bank, and due to its association with places such as Place Vendôme, the Right Bank can now be used to refer to a level of elegance and sophistication now found in its more bohemian sister to the south. Its most famous street is undeniably the Champs-Élysées, but there are others such as Rue de la Paix, Rue de Rivoli, and Avenue Montaigne. Place Vendôme is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens and east of the Église de la Madeleine. ... Bohemians are inhabitants of Bohemia, Czech Republic. ... Avenue des Champs-Elysées from Place de la Concorde, seen from above the obelisk The Champs-Elysées (pronounced â–¶ (help· info) literally the Elysian fields) is a broad avenue in the French capital Paris. ... Rue de Rivoli is one of the most famous streets of Paris, a commercial street whose shops include the most fashionable names in the world. ...


Arrondissement - Paris is divided up into twenty arrondissements or districts. The "First" is in the center of the city, and the others are laid out in a clockwise manner about this. As these are such a basic unit to the city, they are constantly referred to in guides and literature; almost always using simply their associated number (1er, or 2ème etc). The Louvre is in the First, the Arc de Triomphe is in the Eighth. NB: You can determine the arrondissement of an address from its postal code. The last two digits of a Paris address give the arrondissement; 75018 is the eighteenth for example. The exception to this rule are addresses with the word "CEDEX" appearing in them. The city of Paris, in France is divided into 20 arrondissements. ... I.M. Peis Louvre Pyramid: the entrance to the galleries lies below the glass pyramid The Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre) in Paris, France, is one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. ... Arc de Triomphe The Arc de Triomphe is a monument in Paris that stands in the centre of the Place de lÉtoile, at the western end of the Champs-Élysées. ... Postal codes were introduced in France in 1972, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. ...


The Marais - Comprised of roughly the 3rd and 4th arrondissements (Right Bank), it is a quartier that has retained many small streets and hints at how Old Paris looked.


Haussmann - This Baron was responsible for the significant urban planning project of 1852 - 1870. The twenty arrondissements date from this time. Haussmann pushed through many of the major boulevards through the old sections of the city. Georges-Eugène, Baron Haussmann (March 27, 1809 – January 11, 1891) was a French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris. ...


Métro - the Paris subway. It is extensive and serves nearly every corner of the city. The last trains of the day are around 00h30. Paris Art Nouveau Metro sign The Paris Métro is the metro (underground) system in Paris, France. ...


RER - Réseau Express Régional; similar to the Métro except that it also serves the outlying suburbs and regions of Paris. In the center of the city, the distance between RER stations is more significant than for the Métro; an advantage if you want to go larger distances quickly - even in the center of the city. The RER (Réseau Express Régional, IPA /εr É™ εr/, Regional Express Network) is an urban rail network in Paris and the surrounding ÃŽle-de-France region of France. ...


Bateau Mouche - This is the name given to tourist boats that ply the Seine. Literally translated, it means "fly boat." The name probably comes from the district of Lyon - "La mouche" - the place where such boats were commonplace before they were in Paris.


In Biscay, Spain

In the metropolitan Bilbao area of Biscay, the term has another meaning: Location of Bilbao in Spain Cityscape of Bilbao, with the Guggenheim Museum on the bottom right Bilbao from satellite (NASA World Wind Landsat) LIZ Bilbao (Basque: Bilbo) in the North of Spain, is the largest city in the Pais Vasco and the capital of the province of Vizcaya (Basque: Bizkaia). ...

  • The left bank of river Nervión (Spanish, "Margen Izquierda"; Basque, "Ezkerraldea") with the towns of Barakaldo, Sestao, Santurtzi and Portugalete and extending to the iron mines (Zona Minera or Mehatzaldea) was the place of industrial workers living in crowded desarrollismo apartments. They supported leftist ideas.
  • The right bank was the place of the industry owners, the bourgeois living in the chalets of Neguri, that allied with the Spanish right wing.

The "hanging bridge" joins both at the mouth of the river before the aber. The distinction has dimmed as the industrial crisis and the lack of building space caused the upward mobile children of the left-bankers to move to right-bank Getxo, where chalets left place to apartment blocks. However, both banks are still distinguishable in economic, demographic and political measuring. The river Nervión runs through the city of Bilbao, Spain into the Bay of Biscay. ... Baracaldo (also spelled Barakaldo), is an industrial river-port municipality of northeastern Spain. ... Sestao is a town located in the province of Bizkaia, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, in the North of Spain. ... Santurce-Santurtzi is a port in the province of Bizkaia, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, Spain. ... Puente Colgante Portugalete is a port city lying to the west of Bilbao (Basque: Bilbo) in the province of Vizcaya in Spain. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... Parliamentary democracy was restored following the death of General Franco in 1975, who had ruled since the end of the civil war in 1939. ... Aber can refer to: Abergwyngregyn, a village in Gwynedd, North Wales adjacent to the A55 five miles east of Bangor. ... Getxo is a town located in the province of Bizkaia, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, in the North of Spain. ...


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