Sant Joan les Fonts is a municipality of the comarca of Garrotxa. As of 2006, the population is 2,708. Until 1949 it was known as Begudą.It is part of the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park.The earliest core of the town was formed in the ninth century. Earthquakes in the years 1427 and 1428 collapsed most of the buildings. A recovery began in the area, with small population centers, that was hampered by civil war in the fifteenth century. During the 17th century, it lived through an age of crisis, aggravated by the War of the Spanish Succession .There was no significant population growth until the eighteenth century, with the incorporation of immigrants from Olot and the vicinity.