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Amid a garden of palm trees and fir trees east of the Desert Institute of Sarria is the tower that now occupies the school Monserdà pain. This building was owned by Nicholas Boadas and designed by architect Michael Madorell and Rivers (1869-1936), in 1904. In the Historical Archive of Sarria plans are available for this unique modernist tower located in a privileged, dominating almost the entire Plan of Barcelona.
Possibly the architect Madorell advantage of much of the old building that stood in the same place and was owned by Joaquim Maria Borras and Rodriguez, retired colonel of the General Staff in Barcelona. Flocks 1853, which gave the square its name, donated the village sarrianenc part of a vineyard owned by opening tour of Princess (now Santa Eulalia). His widow, Clotilde de Sixto Borras, made urbanized land, which today form the square Flocks and the lower promenade of Santa Eulalia and San Carlos Street did open, beginning today Vallvidrera road. Flocks were the owners of much of the land in this sector Sarria, known as Torre de Lledó or thief. The previous owners of this property were Salvio Rocafort Llorenzo Lladó, the archdeacon Hearts (1637) and Onofre Borras (1750). The tower Lledó hosted Archduke Charles was king of Catalonia and Aragon as Charles III (1705); Other notable guests were King Philip V and, later, in 1842, General Espartero. Sixto Clotilde's death, around 1886, the tower passed to heirs, and of these, Nicholas Boadas.
On 16 December 1808 there was a battle between the French and Spanish around the tower Llado, according Sagau explains Father Rector Vallvidrera in his diary written during the French war.

Information from the publication "Itineraries: Sarria: Old" published by the district of Sarria-Sant Gervasi in 2007 by the author M. Palau-Ribes.

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