The city has a roller hockey team Club Patí Voltregà, one of the most important in Spain, and dispute the main League OK Liga.

Sant Hipòlit de Voltregà was one of the so-called burnt villages attacked by the Bourbons during the War of the Spanish Succession.

The Catalan army of Antoni Desvalls, Marquis of Poal, pursued the incursion and forced the Bourbon detachment to flee northwards along the Ter River.

In the last days of January, the column of the Count of Montemar reached La Gleva, where he imprisoned some civilians and executed a hundred of the subjects who had fortified themselves in the sanctuary of the Mare de Déu.

With the aim of spreading terror among those Catalan populations that had risen up against Philip V's new taxes, the troops sacked and set fire to the city.