Redirect according to the URL

I have the following scenario: I'd like to do a redirection system like this:

/redirect/place1   ->  /page.php?place=place1
/redirect/testabc  ->  /page.php?place=testabc
/redirect/xyzw123  ->  /page.php?place=xyzw123

The only way I can see now is to do subfolders in /redirect which have a index.php who redirects it. But I'd like that to be fully automatic.

Thanks for any answer!