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La Redoute Stadium

La Redoute Stadium

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The La Redoute Stadium is a French Stadium on the island of Réunion, an overseas department in the south-western Indian Ocean.

It is located in Saint-Denis, the capital, on the small plateau hosting the neighborhood of La Redoute.

History

Frequented by neighborhood joggers, this sports ground welcomes every year the arrival of Grand Raid, a mountain race that crosses the island from the Sud Sauvage. In the past, horse races and races of donkeys and pigs were organized there, and were lively, popular successes; the site supported a hippodrome[1] that has now disappeared. It also had, for a time, a velodrome at the beginning of the 20th century.[1]


References

  1. Sport colonial, André Jean Benoît, Éditions L'Harmattan, Paris, 1996 – ISBN 978-2-7384-4094-5.

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