Stade Charles-Ehrmann

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The Charles-Ehrmann Stadium, formerly the Western Stadium, is an athletic stadium located in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) within the sports complex of the Charles-Ehrmann Sports Park (formerly the Western Sports Park). Apart from the practice of athletics and football, it is often the setting of large summer concerts, especially since it is next to the Nikaia Palace.

History: In the 1960s, the mayor of Nice Jean Médecin, aware of the lack of sports infrastructure in his city, was thinking of a project to build a large sports centre. In 1965, he commissioned his new sports assistant, Charles Ehrmann, to reflect on the project. Shortly afterwards, Jean Médecin died and his son Jacques, who succeeded him to the town hall, took up the idea. Charles Ehrmann wants to build an athletic stadium within a set of other sports facilities on a plot of more than twenty hectares. Jacques Médecin buys twenty-five hectares of land in the Var plain west of Nice for the project. Construction of the stadium began in 1970. Charles Ehrmann demands that the track of athletics meet the standards allowing the organization...