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The great square at the heart of Mexico City, officially the Plaza de la Constitucion but known to all as the Zocalo, is one of the largest public squares in the world and the symbolic centre of the nation, a vast paved expanse that has been the focus of civic and ceremonial life since the time of the Aztecs. The square stands on the site of the sacred precinct of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, and after the Spanish conquest it was laid out anew as the centre of the colonial city, surrounded b...