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The Alameda Central is the oldest public park in the Americas, a leafy rectangle of trees, fountains and pathways in the heart of Mexico City, laid out in the late sixteenth century on land that had once been an Aztec marketplace and, more grimly, a site of executions during the Inquisition. Its name comes from the alamos, or poplars, originally planted there, and over the centuries it has been a fashionable promenade for the city's residents, redesigned and embellished in various styles, partic...