Taxco, Mexico Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Silver has been mined in TAXCO since before the Conquest, and although its sources have long been depleted it still forms the basis of the town's fame and its livelihood. Nowadays, though, it's in the shape of jewellery, made in hundreds of workshops to be sold throughout the country and in a bewildering array of shops ( platerías ) catering to the tourists in Taxco itself. It's an attractive place, a mass of terracotta-tiled, whitewashed houses lining the narrow cobbled alleys that straggle steeply up the hills like some Mexican version of a Tuscan village. At intervals the pattern is broken by … more »