Le Fort Carré
Sixteenth-century star-shaped fort on a headland, with a historic sports stadium at its foot.
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This audio guide to Le Fort Carré in Antibes, near Cannes, turns on one June afternoon in nineteen thirty-eight, when a World Cup quarter-final was played on the pitch at the foot of the fort. It follows a Swedish side that had not yet kicked a ball in the tournament and a Cuban team fresh from the upset of its debut. Along the way it reaches back to the day France's president opened the ground after the First World War. Best heard on the rampart, looking down at the running track.
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