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The grandest cultural building in Mexico, the Palacio de Bellas Artes, or Palace of Fine Arts, rises in gleaming white marble at the edge of the Alameda Central in the historic heart of Mexico City, its great tiled dome a landmark of the capital. The palace had a long and troubled birth: commissioned during the rule of Porfirio Diaz in the early years of the twentieth century and designed by the Italian architect Adamo Boari in an opulent Art Nouveau style, its construction was interrupted by th...