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| Taxco
became incorporated in 1532; but the books in the Court of Letters, Tasco's
first-known public registry, go back to 1529. |
 
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| Situated
in the central eminence of the town, is the Parish Church of Santa Prisca,
the church is Taxco's outstanding treasure and a glorious monument of
humanity. Since1758, the Santa Prisca has given to Taxco a unique characteristic
beauty. |
 
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| Once
Taxco had taken root in the mountain called Atachi it extended its urban
dominion to the different fells of its southeastern slope, sowing small
white, red-tiled houses all over the hillside. |
 
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At
five thousand two hundred feet above sea level and on the slope of a high
mountain, ~ the highest, the Huisteco, shields it from the North Wind
~ Taxco's climate is dry, temperate and mild.
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