Historic Mazatlan

Mazatlan's historic core of the city dates back to the heydays of silver mining in the neighboring Sierra Madre. To day the Centro Historico is a place where wonderfully restored and maintained buildings are seen side-by-side with decaying structures that still reflect beautiful Mexican architecture but, as a real estate agent explained to me, are not being restored and saved because there my be a dozen or more heirs where
sorting out what belongs to
whom is next to impossible and
will never produce a clear and
clean deed.

Anyway: here are just a few shots of building that have been maintained and restored...

Some of them have apartments, others businesses including restaurants and bars...