title: La Redoute Stadium
text: # 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 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 now disappeared. it also had, for a time, a velodrome at the beginning of 20th century.
  
  