Where to Stay in Taxco de Alarcón, Estado de Guerrero

What is Taxco de Alarcón known for?

Old and new mines work the ground around the city, and hundreds of silver shops fill the narrow winding streets that climb the hill Taxco stands on. The church answers it. Santa Prisca Church is the baroque building the city is known for, and the William Spratling Museum and Casa Borda carry the rest of what Taxco de Alarcón keeps indoors.

What are the main landmarks in Taxco de Alarcón?

Santa Prisca Church dominates the list. A Christ sculpture is recorded under the city's own name, Casa Borda carries the Borda name, and three museums follow: the William Spratling Museum, the Museo de Arte Virreinal de Taxco and the Museo Casa de las Lágrimas o Casa Figueroa. Six names in all.

Between them they cover the baroque church, the colonial art of the Museo de Arte Virreinal de Taxco and the silver trade the William Spratling Museum records, which is the range a hill town of this size can hold.

What is the history of Taxco de Alarcón?

The record gives no founding date. What it gives instead is silver: old and new mines in the country around the city, and a street trade of hundreds of shops built on them. Santa Prisca Church carries the baroque period.

The building is what Taxco is known for, and it stands in a hill town whose narrow winding streets follow the slope rather than a grid. Two personal names survive. Casa Borda and the William Spratling Museum attach the Borda and Spratling names to a house and a collection, and both sit inside the same small city that administers the Taxco de Alarcón Municipality.

Colonial art has its own room. The Museo de Arte Virreinal de Taxco covers the viceregal period, while the Museo Casa de las Lágrimas o Casa Figueroa carries a house name and a second one beside it. A Christ sculpture is listed under the city's name.

Guerrero holds all of it, with Iguala 36 kilometres off, the state capital at Chilpancingo 135 kilometres away and Mexico City 170 kilometres from the hill. Silver is still the thread that ties the mines, the shops and the Spratling collection together.

Where is Taxco de Alarcón?

The hill is the whole geography. Taxco de Alarcón is built on it, so its narrow winding streets climb and drop instead of running level, and the silver country the mines work spreads out around the town. Iguala lies 36 kilometres off.

Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero, is 135 kilometres away and Mexico City 170 kilometres, and those three distances are the whole of what the record fixes about where the town sits. Guerrero puts the town in the tropics.

What is the climate of Taxco de Alarcón?

The hill does the tempering. Taxco de Alarcón sits in the tropical band, and its position on high ground inland, 170 kilometres from Mexico City, is the only thing the record offers to explain what the year here feels like. No sea appears in it.

The mines, the streets and Santa Prisca Church all belong to that inland hill setting, and nothing sharper about the seasons is written down for the city.

How do you get to Taxco de Alarcón?

Iguala is the nearest named town. It stands 36 kilometres from Taxco, which makes it the shortest hop in the record, and the state capital Chilpancingo is 135 kilometres out. Mexico City is the long approach.

The capital lies 170 kilometres from the hill, and no highway number, rail line or operator is named for any of those three runs, so the distances are all the file gives an arriving traveller. Spanish is used across Guerrero.