Blazing terracotta rooftops cascade down steep hillsides beneath an impossibly blue Mexican sky — this vivid chrome-era panorama of Taxco, Guerrero captures the "Colonial Gem of Mexico" at the height of its mid-century tourist fame. The magnificent twin towers of Santa Prisca parish church, begun in 1751 by silver magnate José de la Borda, anchor the composition as the silver-and-white colonial city spills across the mountain. A sign for the Hotel Taxqueño is legible at lower left. Photographed in Ektachrome by Otto Done and published by Foto-Arte of Mexico City (Apartado 21998), the card was printed by Dexter Press of West Nyack, New York — one of the premier chrome-postcard printers of the era. The reverse text celebrates Taxco as "a lovely old silver town, founded in 1522 … paradise for artists and photographers." Collector number 77104 appears at lower left of the reverse.