Teotihuacan: City of the Gods offers visitors the chance to see over 400 works related to the most important city of ancient Mexico. Pieces that come from Mexican museums and speak of the relations between art and power, status and religion, through a course that focuses on architecture, urbanism, politics, economics, war and religion.

The city of Teotihuacan, the largest of the continent in pre-Hispanic times, was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1987. It has some of the most famous monuments of Mesoamerican culture —as The Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon, the Avenue of the Dead, the Jaguar Palace and the Temple of Xalla Quetzalcóal— that attest to the splendor of  this civilization.

A city that reached its apogee between II and VII centuries AD and had an estimated population of between 100-200 thousand people, whose influence would be felt by all walks of Mesoamerica, as evidenced by the discoveries made in cities like Tikal and Monte Albán. An enclave that would be cultural and political epicenter of the various Hispanic cultures that inhabited until its decline in the seventh century, because of political instability and internal rebellions that were a real collapsed in northern Mesoamerica.

Teotihuacan, "the place of the gods" or "the place where gods are made" in the Nahuatl language, express their wealth in CaixaForum Barcelona through objects that belong to different contexts. From kitchen utensils to fine jewelry made with precious stones, woodwork, pottery and bone sculptures and murals. An exhibition that opens to the public on April 1 and remain until June 19. Alejandro Martínez

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