Qualla: Taxco https://qualla.com/taxco en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/g/3/1/taxco-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Taxco https://qualla.com/taxco Taxco: Introduction https://qualla.com/taxco/ Photo credit Heterotrofo, CC BY-SA 4.0. José de la Borda spent a fortune dragging pink stone up steep hillsides. Between 1751 and 1758, the silver magnate poured so much money into building the Santa Prisca Church that the project nearly bankrupted him -- a man whose wealth came from the very mountains surrounding this town. The church still stands on Taxco's main plaza, its twin towers plain at the base and wildly ornamented at the top, its cupola bright with colored tile, its interior lined floor to ceiling with gold-covered altarpieces. It is the kind of building that could only be built by someone who believed silver would never run out. In Taxco, it eventually did. But what replaced the mines turned out to be just as enduring.

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/g/3/1/taxco-wp/9g31-taxco-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Taxco: An American on Calle de Las Delicias https://qualla.com/taxco/ Photo credit Carlos Adampol Galindo from DF, México, CC BY-SA 2.0. When William Spratling arrived in 1929, Taxco was a spent mining town clinging to hillsides in the mountains of Guerrero. Silver had shaped the place since the Spanish colonial period -- the Ex Hacienda del Chorrillo, built by knights of Hernan Cortes, dates to the 1530s, and its...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/g/3/1/taxco-wp/9g31-taxco-an-american-on-calle-de-las-delicias.mp3 0:06 2 full Taxco: A Plaza Built on Uneven Ground https://qualla.com/taxco/ Photo credit AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Taxco's main plaza, officially Plaza Borda, is the kind of place where a single building tells you everything about the terrain. The Casa Borda -- the most important non-religious colonial structure in town -- has two stories facing the plaza and five stories facing the Plaza de ...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/g/3/1/taxco-wp/9g31-taxco-a-plaza-built-on-uneven-ground.mp3 0:06 3 full Taxco: Penitents and Stink Bugs https://qualla.com/taxco/ Photo credit Isaacvp, CC BY-SA 4.0. Holy Week in Taxco has drawn international attention since at least 1622, when processions first took place in the atrium of the Church of San Bernardino de Siena. Between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, ten major processions wind through the steep streets -- six in the evening, f...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/g/3/1/taxco-wp/9g31-taxco-penitents-and-stink-bugs.mp3 0:06 4 full Taxco: Silver After the Silver Ran Out https://qualla.com/taxco/ Photo credit Syced, CC0. The last major mining operation near Taxco, Industrial Minera Mexico S.A., phased out operations beginning in 2007 due to depleted reserves and labor problems. Mining is no longer a major employer. What Spratling set in motion nearly a century ago has proven more durable than the...

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