Casa Borda / Centro Cultural Casa Borda, Taxco

Casa Borda was built in the mid-18th century as the town residence of José de la Borda, the French-born silver-mining magnate whose Taxco operations financed both this house and the neighboring Templo de Santa Prisca. Constructed on a steep slope facing Plaza Borda, the building is known for its plain, austere stone facade contrasting with the ornate Baroque church beside it, and for an interior courtyard design that adapts to the site's incline across multiple levels. After passing through various uses following Borda's era, the building was restored and converted into a municipal cultural center, the Centro Cultural Casa Borda, which today hosts temporary art exhibitions, cultural events, and workshops rather than a fixed historical collection. The curatorial approach is therefore rotating rather than permanent, with gallery spaces inside the restored colonial structure given over to contemporary Mexican art, photography, and craft exhibitions that change through the year, alongside occasional exhibits on Taxco's silver-mining history and the Borda family's role in the town's development. Restoration work preserved the building's original stone walls, wooden beam ceilings, and courtyard layout while adapting interior spaces for gallery lighting and display needs, maintaining the exterior's plain colonial character as a deliberate contrast to Santa Prisca's ornamentation next door.