To the southwest of the Community of La Rioja, at its confluence with Castilla y León, lies Viniegra de Abajo. The town emerges at the heart of a mountainous area and is sure to surprise and delight visitors with the scale of its stone buildings and charming cobbled roads.

The elegant and ostentatious "Casas de Indianos" coexist with the beautiful stone constructions of the farmers, distributed alongside the Urbión river in one of the few open areas that it leaves in its wake, to form a harmonious urban area of cobbled streets, small vegetable gardens and beautiful squares.

Viniegra's history is exciting. The discovery of tombs and a Visigothic stele, found a few years ago in the urban precinct of the town, point to the existence of Visigothic settlements and testify to the antiquity of the founding of the town.

It seems that Viniegra was the city of Lutia. It was there that Rhetogenes Caraunius recruited 400 young men to fight against Scipio during the siege of Numantia. This was at the peak of the Betrayal, and they were handed over with their right hand cut off, thus dealing two blows to the inhabitants: the first physical, as the working population was left useless, and the second moral, as the warriors were denied an honourable death on the battlefield since they could not wield weapons.

After lending support to Count Fernán González, it belonged for centuries to the crown of Castile.

Under the name of Viniegra de Yuso, it was included in the list of 44 towns that made up the Lordship of Cameros, donated in 1366 by Enrique de Tratámara to the knight Juan Ramírez de Arellano for his support in the fight against Peter I the Cruel. It then belonged to the lordship of the counts of Aguilar and Inestrillas, heirs of the Cameros domain, as reported in the Catastro of Ensenada in 1751.

With the end of the lordships in the nineteenth century (1811), it became part of the province of Soria, until the creation of the province of Logroño on 30 November, 1833.