Guerrero

Guerrero is home to three of Mexico's most emblematic beaches in a single state: Acapulco, the bay where Mexican mass tourism was born in the nineteen-fifties and which remains an icon; Zihuatanejo, the fishing village that preserves its human scale despite its fame; and Ixtapa, the resort planned in the seventies with first-class hotel infrastructure.

Acapulco has a complex history and unmatched energy: the cliff divers of La Quebrada, who plunge from 35 meters into the sea calculating the tide with millimetric precision, is the oldest and most vibrant spectacle in Mexican tourism. The lower city and Las Brisas in the heights represent two distinct faces of the destination that was once Hollywood's favorite "Mexican Riviera."

Guerrero's Costa Chica harbors Afro-Mexican communities that maintain a unique culture in the Americas: the dance of the diablos, the son de artesa, and the Afro-Hispanic culinary traditions of the coasts between Acapulco and Oaxaca are an intangible heritage that is only beginning to be recognized and protected.

Taxco, in the mountains of the state's north, is the capital of Mexican silver: its cobblestone streets and white houses with green tiles, declared a Monument Zone, house hundreds of workshops and jewelry shops that work silver as they have been doing since colonial times.