When you go Taxco shopping, you find the best silver products since Taxco is the main silver producer in the country. You can walk around the streets and find stands, stores, and silver workshops everywhere. If you are lucky enough, you will get to watch how artisans make these gorgeous pieces, fall in love with the unique designs of many different pieces you find here, and take one home as a souvenir.
Anywhere else in the country, it is hard to find the same quality and low prices as in Taxco shops. Here is always the warm, kind atmosphere created by the artisans who elaborate their crafts with love and display them proudly. Many works of art that decorate the Vatican were elaborated in Taxco workshops, thanks to the knowledge and skill of the imaginative Mexican metal- and silversmiths.
Mercado de Artesanias (Crafts Market)
Located right behind the Cathedral, this popular place offers a great variety of handicrafts and jewelry of various materials. You can also enjoy typical Mexican market folklore. Here you will surely find something special to take home with you.
Tianguis de la Plata
Every Saturday, the handicraft workshops show their wares at this beautiful street market where you find jars decorated with different motifs, jewelry articles with crystal inlays and precious stones, and countless incredible figures.
Taxco el Viejo (Old Taxco)
At this store located only 6 miles from downtown, you find a great variety of typical handicrafts and fine jewelry. There is a wide menu of bracelets, earrings, buttons, and buckles, as well as silverware, jars, and cups. Here you find original William Spratling articles, too. Attractive prices are yet another feature of this fabulous store.
Silver Shops and Workshops
There are many silver stores in Taxco, where you can buy recently made articles. All of them proudly show off articles elaborated in workshops all over Taxco. Ask for Talleres Lagunas de Taxco, Los Castillo, Plateros de Taxco, or Mari Lagunas Silver Workshop, all places where you will find the perfect souvenir to take home with you.