Taxco

A mountain silver town in Guerrero state whose white-painted adobe houses and the Santa Prisca baroque church — built by silver magnate José de la Borda in 1748 — create one of the most picturesque townscapes in Mexico. Taxco is the silversmithing capital of Mexico with over 300 silver workshops and the annual Festival Internacional de la Plata attracting international jewellery designers. Santa Prisca's facade is 15% taller than Zacatecas's cathedral, and Taxco's silver workshops outnumber those in any other Mexican colonial city by a factor of 10.