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Spread across some 1,200 acres in the heart of San Diego, Balboa Park is the largest urban cultural park in the United States and a beloved centrepiece of the city's public life. The land was set aside as a public reserve in 1868 under the name City Park, making it one of the earliest formal public parks in the American West, and was renamed in honour of the Spanish explorer Vasco NÃºÃ±ez de Balboa in 1910 ahead of the great Panama-California Exposition. That 1915 exposition, and a smaller seco...