When you start digging a bit deeper in the booming years of PV, you'll inevitably stumble over Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and John Huston. That is why, if you check out this site in more detail, you'll find some very complete and detailed accounts of how these Hollywood personalities, the Welsh Richard Huston, the English-North-american Elizabeth Taylor, and the Irish-North-american John Huston and how they influenced the development of Vallarta.

A little digging will make it clear that they were not the only reason Puerto Vallarta took off as a tourist destination, but on the strong foundations the Governor Francisco Medina Ascencio developed in the 1960s, the International Airport, highways and more, the enormous glitz and free promotion these celebrities, their ongoing romance as a couple and with the city, really gave the city an exceptional boost.

John Huston had chosen Mismaloya as the main set for his Tennessee Williams adaptation of "The Night Of the Iguana", he chose Richard Burton as leading star and in 1963 they started shooting in Puerto Vallarta. The movie and town grabbed the attention of the worldwide media mainly because Richard Burton's mistress, Elizabeth Taylor, came...

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Janice Chatterton, owner of Casa Kimberly and Casa Bursus (now called Hacienda San Angel) commissioned the "Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton" statue to Jim Demetro, who over the years, on and off, has worked to finalize it. It's a piece he created along with his daughter Christina Demetro, who has become a permanent partner in creating the most recent sculptures unveiled in Puerto Vallarta, the newest one, The Fishermen, during Puerto Vallarta's Centennial celebrations in 2018.

The Lovers is located right by the entrance, on the way into The Iguana Restaurant & Tequila Bar on Calle Zaragoza 445 in the Gringo Gulch, downtown PV.
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