In Toulon, a dive into modernism
As journalist Jean-Paul Jacob noted in an article devoted to the opening of the facility in the regional daily Var-Matin on Sunday, May 28, 1972, the previous day in Toulon had been marked by a triple inauguration.
But the openings of the new sports medicine and medical-social centers neither had the importance nor the resonance of the opening ceremony reserved for the remarkable aquatic complex. Presided over by the prefect of the Var region, Louis Lalanne, and Toulon's mayor, Maurice Arreckx, the pool's inauguration was attended by a crowd of public figures and two days of festivities featuring competitions, water polo matches and aquatic ballets.
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