Taxco
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- Art - Jewelery - Design - Fotos by Peter Leister - Well Taxco, it takes two hours for going from Mexico City to Tasco. You have to add the time for going to the bus station in Mexico City. The total you multiply by two. This made me think twice, before I decided to go. Tasco was the town of silver mining and now it is the town of silvershops. I decided to visit Tasco, after I had seen some excellent Silver Crafts in exclusive and expensive shops in Mexico City at the Zocalo, e.g. a leather belt with silver embroidery. My intention was to see an even richer selection of crafts and to buy some of these items at the site of production a little cheeper. Conclusion after one long day. During my bus trip they showed videos of Hollywood productions with a lot of killing, shooting, warfare - once again - at a noise level, that kept me awake all the trip. The countyside is very beautifull. And Tasco is a beautifull little town in the mountains, worth the visit. The guy from the Tourist office gave me a map of the city showing the sites, where to find silver shops. He pointed out one 'big shop' a little outside of town and explained, that I could take a Taxi for free, for going there. After having visited the town, having climbed to a huge Cruzifix above Taxco and having seen a lot of silver shops with mostly massproduction I decided to visit the above mentionned shop at the outskirts of the town. Before taking a Beetle Taxi I asked the guy from the Tourist Office, who pays for the Taxi. "It's the government". Arriving with the Taxi at the shop, I knew, who is the government. I saw how the salesperson from the shop passed some money to the cab driver. Guess, what type of silver crafts I did find in the shop. The same as in town, but a little more expensive. In town I have seen in some shops some nice and unique crafts, but here it was all massproduction. After 15 minutes, I was on the street again. By further driving around in a Cab and visiting other sites, I know that you may find valuable and unique silver crafts in Tasco, but probably you need to stay one week in Tasco, to find what you are looking for.
Taxco, seen from the Crucifix. Doesn't it look like a jewel? For my promenade in Tasco, I used two points of reference: The baroque Templo Santa Prisca and the giant Cruzifix high above Taxco in the mountains. As a consequence, you can see fotos taken of both objects from changing positions. At the beginning, I felt like crazy trying to walk (climb) the steep steps up to the Cruzifix -at the given temperatures-. But really, it was fun. On my way up I had chats with schoolchildren -they wanted to talk English with me- on their way home for having lunch.
An other place worth to be seen, is the Mueo Guillermo Spratling. He was an American architect who established a workshop for producing silver jewelery. This later became a factory and finaly was the initiation of many silver workshops in Tasco. The museum has a collection of silver jewelery, designed by Spratling, and of prehispanic art of excellent quality.
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