La Redoute Stadium

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

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

20°53′03″S 55°26′32″E / 20.8842°S 55.4422°E / -20.8842; 55.4422

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

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