Placed to 464 meters of altitude, the distance that him separated for 8 kilometers of Logronio, 36 Estella's kilometer and 81 of Pamplona. Viana was founded by king Sancho VII the Fortress in the year 1219 and his town-planning tracing has the proper character of a fortified square. The streets are narrow and the apples of the elongated and slightly wide houses. The growth of the city there is been in outside of the ancient enclosure. The points are numerous of interest that Viana offers, one of the localities with more personality and of major hereditary wealth of Earth Estella. Between others there are some of them that deserve a visit to the city and are her monumental Church of Santa Maria, with his baroque front and Major reredos, the temperas of the chapel of Saint John of Branch, the walls and doors, the urban enclosure with his numerous ones and splendid palaces and houses emblazed of the XVIth, XVIIth centuries and XVIII, the church of San Pedro, the convent of Saint John of the Branch, the chapels of his territory, authentic relics of the numerous ones inhabited that existed the Milky Way, her Lagoon of the Canes and the hipogeo of Longar.

One of the most monumental churches is the parish of Viana's Santa Maria, constructed in style Gothic of the ends of the XIIIth century and beginning of the XIVth, that it completed throughout the XVIth century and across the XVIIth century, XVIII and XIX.

The Biggest street of Viana delimits in his trip one of the flanks of the square of the Jurisdictions, which, to weigh of his limited extension, is the most monumental set of the city, occupying one of his biggest fronts the parish of Santa Maria and another baroque building of Town hall, the most noble civil construction of Viana, who is the clear exponent of the power and wealth that had the corporation in last centuries. A big chairs building is with form of prism of egg white horizontalidad, of seven rectangular hollows and balconies, an open sea in porches of half a point in his low body, while that the Superior takes balconies on some other porticoes. Them elevations turn out to be covered by pilasters, all of them of capitals toscanos, although differentiated in his shafts: this way, those of the apartment low are smooth and those of the second one have grooves. East resource differentiates the high body as principal apartment. Rich frame of the balconies that preserve his primitive forge of balusters there are three balconajes grouping head office three of seven lintels, while the wings only include two. In center of the front campea a monumental shield of the monarchy Spanish worked in stone and provided with rich console with lions, foliage and imperial crown

 The same ones architects makers of the Consistorial House constructed "Balcony of Bulls" of the municipality in the square of the enclosure. The front, austere, of chairs block with marked horizontalidad, composes of two bodies with nine arcades of half a point on props, the low one in the shape of porticoes and the provided Superior of balconies for the spectacles contemplation. His ends articulate for pilasters toscanas that support showy friezes. Her front culminates in a double eave of wood provided with cantilevers carved. It takes the shield of the city as an auction and on both sides is torrecillas squared of brick. The chapter constructed in this one square, his bulls balcony, regrettably eliminated, of similar characteristics. Both buildings are of a baroque style classicist and rationalist as regards the French architecture of the moment.

The Ancient Hospital of Santa Maria of Grace, building erected in 1487. Initially ready services like civil, explicable hospital for his situation in the Way of Santiago. It does not present a stylistic unit since his Gothic origin has been transforming in successive epochs. It presents only one ship of big width split into three stretches by means of pointed arches that to be they raise from the same soil, and straight head that opens to every side to itself in small niches. The caberera is covered by one crucería vault with baquetones and the ship for a baroque vault reduced of half a cannon with fanlights. In his front two perceive constructive stages, one of the XVth century in chairs and other one of the century XVI in brick. Of artistic interest it is also The House of Urra. (source of the information, paginates of the Government of Navarre)

Viana produces also one excellent wine under the commercial mark of Viana's prince.