Viana

Viana was founded by Sancho VII of Navarre in 1219 as a fortified town facing the frontier with Castile. Its walls protected a settlement populated from neighbouring villages. In 1507, during a struggle between the Navarrese crown and the Count of Lerín, Cesare Borgia was killed in an ambush near Viana. Five years later the town submitted to the Castilian army advancing into Navarre.