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Rhône River |
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Rhône RiverRiver, Switzerland and France. A historic southern gateway, as well as the only major European river flowing directly to the Mediterranean Sea, the Rhône is 505 mi (813 km) long and navigable for about 300 mi (485 km). It is Alpine in character, and its course has been shaped by neighbouring mountain systems. Rising in the Swiss Alps, it flows into Lake Geneva, then crosses into France through the Jura Mountains. It continues south through Lyon, Avignon, and Tarascon to Arles and enters the Mediterranean west of Marseille. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In August 1944, Bank and his Jedburgh team made a combat parachute jump into southern France, where they successfully employed hit-and-run tactics to harass Nazi forces that were withdrawing up the Rhone River. Sited at the confluence of the Saone and Rhone rivers in Lyons, the futuristic megastructure is conceived as a hybridisation of museum and urban leisure space. La Crau is limited by the Alpilles Mountains (north), the Mediterranean Sea (south), the Etang de Berre (west), and the Rhone River (east). |
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