As you walk upwards the Ramblas along the right sidewalk you can find a curious building from 1858 called Casa Bruno Cuadros or best known as La Casa dels Paraigües. Its refurbishment dates from 1883, previous to the Great Exhibition, when the city was being transformed to receive this event. Josep Vilaseca was the architect in charge of the building's improvement and he magnificently altered it for its new purpose of holding an umbrella shop in its ground floor. Several molten metal umbrellas hang from the building's facade and a dragon also decorates its corner.
Much years later, in the 1980's, it was again refurbished to hold a Caixa Sabadell office. It's a great one-minute break to every tourist's walk around the Ramblas and it also offers a wide range of architectural styles to the Ramblas view.
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