Different writings from donation offer testimonies unequivocal of the antiquity of the villa. Thus, it dates from the anus the 1029 first documentary appointment of the locality, when yielding Sancho the Greater one, king of Navarre, the monastery of Hervías to the one of San Millán.

The 26 of March of 1651 granted king Felipe IV to the archbishop of Towns, Tame Francisco, I title of Count of Hervías.

It comprised of the province of Towns until the creation of the one of Logroño in November of 1833. A secular dispute with the near Alesanco has maintained the villa on its character of cradle of Don Zenón de Somodevilla and Bengoechea, Marquess of the Cove, one of the most active politicians of Spanish history. The confused question on the existence of two games of baptism, both authentic ones is based, the one of Hervías dated the 25 of April of 1702, and the one of Alesanco the 2 of June of the same year.

The Marquess of the Cove was a great minister of Property of Carlos III,

It managed to increase the income of Property without increasing the pressure fiscal, which is unusual. For it, it reformed the tributary system for the sake of introducing a single contribution, the cadastre, operation that it demanded to make a massive collection of data and one would become a precious documentary source for the historians, economists and sociologists of the following centuries.

 The 2 of December of 1781, died in Medina of the Field Zenón de Somodevilla,

UNIVERSAL RIOJAN.

Monuments

Church parish of Asuncio'n. Constructed in ashlar masonry and rubblework that reunites elements of different times: edificaros cruise and head between 1555 and 1570, the first sections the ship are dated from the XVIII, concluding this in the XIX. In presbiterio, baroque greater altarpiece, of 1972.

It keeps sacristía interesting images from San Bartholomew, the virgin of the Rosary and the Painful one.

Civil architecture. In the outskirts of the urban helmet, Palace of the counts of Hervías, construction of century XIX, rubblework with esquinazos of ashlar masonry.

  In the highway of Bañares, house immovable of three plants, in ashlar masonry stone, that shows divided shield. In the street of Santo Christ, house with cover under threshold and shield of the century XVIII that Integra a chalice on the keys of San Pedro.