The building in the back became our favourite coffee bar. It's a few hundred years old and it was neat to sit on that balcony and watch the world go by imagining what it might have been like in the early days. The people in the coffee shop loaned us a book with archival photos of this building and the zocalo, which helped.

Taxco is famous for its silver and this area around the zocalo is loaded with shops selling jewellry, dishes, candlesticks and sculpture made of silver.