Stade de France - Paris
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Whoever travels in the evening by the shuttle bus, into the centre of the French metropolis, wipes their eyes in amazement. On the right hand side in the darkness of the Paris suburb of St Denis, what seems to be a giant saucer rises up into the air. Something even Jules Verne had not fantasised! Pointed antennae poke out of the metal surface illuminated in colour. When one approaches a little nearer, the traveller realises that the structure is a stadium, and the antennae are really eighteen towers, each sixty metres high. They support the giant, almost ellipsoid roof of the Stade de France to protect 80,000 to 100,000 spectators from rain, snow, sunshine and wind - some 25 metres before the entrances to the stadium.
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