About Taxco And Its Silver

The Taxco name comes from a Nahuatl (ancient Aztec language) word meaning "ball game"

, an Aztec ritual game which was played before the Spaniards conquered this part of America. The appendix "de Alarcon" is in behalf of the famous play writer Juan Ruiz de Alarcon, who was born in a house located not far from the wonderful baroque Church Santa Prisca y San Sebastian, which stands magnificently in the zocalo (square) of Taxco.

Santa Prisca and San Sebastian church receives thousands upon thousands of visitors every year, who travel all the way from their homes to Taxco to admire it, as well as to see the incredible variety of sterling silver items and jewelry shops, and of course: shop!

For decades, Taxco has been the place to go if one is looking for silver statues, figurines and holloware, as well as any other item made in sterling silver, such as jewelry of all styles and designs imaginable, for any and all occasions, ages and tastes.

The silver jewelry trade in this colonial town was started not by a local person, but an american man named William Spratling. Taxco already had the silver mining going, but it wasn't used locally until this man arrived and set up shop in town. He established a model for the artistic development and growth of the silver industry in Taxco. From his workshop, many known names in the industry learned the trade and then made their own names famous, like the Castillo brothers, for example.

People from all over the world come to this town to shop for wholesale silver jewelry, to then go back to their places and resell it, whether in their own silver jewelry shops, or even to resell to other resellers, as there is no other place in the world where you can find fine, hand crafted, high quality silver art in the form of either sterling silver statues, figurines and jewelry, as you do in Taxco.

The prices you find in Taxco are also unique, since everything is manufactured locally. There are shops all along the stone streets most visited by tourists, as well as others along the highway, and even a market where you can buy straight from some artisans that set up shop there.

Even if nowadays the once famous silver mines of Taxco, which once gave the ancient Spaniard gentleman Don Jose de la Borda the riches with which to build Santa Prisca church during the Colony, are now extinct and only copper and other metals for industrial uses are extracted now, Taxco remains the best and least expensive source for any kind of silver gift you may be searching for.

I strongly recommend you give it a try and, I assure you, you will not be disappointed.

by: Cristian Lavaque

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