Taxco de Alarcón, Guerrero, Mexico
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.
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The parish church of Santa Prisca, a 250-year-old baroque-style church, is found in Taxco.
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