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Saint-Etienne is nestled in France’s central eastern part, 60 km southwest of Lyon. The city is under administration of Loire department. Saint-Etienne has lot of tourist attractions like the Modern Art Museum, Mining Museum, Saint Etienne Historical Museum, Saint-Marie Church, Mercure Saint Etienne Parc de L'Europe, Palais Mimard, Puy de Dome, Notre Dame Church, The Space Craft, Resistance and Loire Deportation Memorial.
Saint-Etienne is going to be a host city of Rugby World Cup 2007. The expected visitors to this mega sporting event is around half a million. The venue for the tournament will be Geoffroy-Guichard at Saint Etienne.
This city is much popular for the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard. This stadium had the repute of hosting various events and it was officially opened in September 1931. Here as many as 36,000 spectators can sit at a time.
The Geoffroy-Guichard stadium has been transformed into an English-style stadium and there are four stands such as Pierre-Faurand, Henri-Point, Charles-Paret and Jean-Snella. It has the nickname "le Chaudron" (the Cauldron).
The visitors who will come to watch the Rugby World Cup 2007 matches will find it easy to reach this stadium in Saint-Etienne . The city’s airport , Aéroport de St Etienne-Bouthéon is at a distance of 10 km from the stadium and the Saint Etienne Chateaucreux railway station is 2km away .
Saint-Etienne will be the venue for three important rugby matches of the Rugby World Cup 2007 .
The Rugby World Cup Pool C match between Scotland and Repechage 1 on September 9,2007
Pool C match between Scotland and Italy on September 29,2007
Pool A match between Samoa and USA
Geoffroy-Guichard stadium in Saint-Etienne has the honor of hosting sports events such as 1984 European Football Championship, the Football World Cup 1998 and the Confederations Cup 2003.
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