Taxco is a beautiful city built on a hill between Acapulco and Mexico City. If you are looking for a side trip this is the place to go. It is rich with old and new silver mines, has narrow streets and hundreds of silver shops. Taxco, Mexico is renowned for its more than 200-year-old baroque-style church, the Santa Prisca Cathedral, dating back to the 1700's.
The Aztecs founded a city they called "Tlacho" meaning the place of the ballgame.
The city is heavily associated with silver, both with the mining of it and other metals and for the crafting of it into jewelry, silverware and other items. This reputation, along with the city’s picturesque homes and surrounding landscapes have made tourism the main economic activity as the only large-scale mining operation here is coming to a close.
Taxco is located in the north-central part of the state, 36 km from the city of Iguala, 135 km from the state capital of Chilpancingo and 170 km southwest of Mexico City. The city was named one of Mexico’s “Pueblos Mágicos” (Magical Towns) due to the quality of the silverwork, the colonial constructions and the surrounding scenery.
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