The name of the city comes from "illo- GRONIO", a Latin-Celtic word that means ‘that ford' and it references to its original placement close to the river Ebro .
Before talking about Logroño, we must mention another settlement that existed 1,5 Km away from the current city centre: the "Vareia" of Romans, that was the crossroads of two important roman roads: the one that linked the Italian route through the Ebro valley with Finis-Terrae (The end of the world) (Tarraco- Caesaraugusta (Zaragoza) – Calagurris – Vareia – Legio – Asturica Augusta etc) and the one coming from the south –west of France (Bayona – Pompaelo – Vareia – Numantia – Toletum – Emerita Augusta (Merida) etc.
On the top of the mountain 'Cantabria' at the other side of the river there was also a Celtic and later Roman city which was destroyed (as well as Vareia) by the west-gothic troupes of King Leovigildo in 574.