The civic coat of arms of Giuggianello is marked by a background with  white and red horizontal strips where there is a jujube. The human presence  on the territory during the prehistory is proved by the recovery of Neolithic vases and human skeletons in the Cave of the Madonna of the Serra. Nearby there are some megalithic monuments  like the menhir "Crocecaduta" and the menhir  "Polisano",  four meters tall. Its name might come from an ancient wood of jujubes, but according to an other hypothesis it  derives from that of a Roman centurion, Giugianus, who probably founded it (after having won this land for his courage on the battleground). He made his own house and that of his soldiers build and, the village became more and more crowded. According to Arditi and Masselli,  the first village was built in the X century by the people who had escaped from the destruction of the near Casale of Muro, that was razed to the ground by the Saracens. The feudal age started after the arrival of the Norman king Tancredi  Of Altavilla, that incorporated the centre into the County of Lecce. Later it was annexed to the Principality of Taranto and it was first  governed by the Orsini del Balzos and then by the Lubellis, the Martinos, the Basurtos and the Guarinis. The last feudal vassals were the Veris, that ruled it until 1806. One of the most important native characters is Domenico Pirtoli. He lived between the XVII and the XVIII centuries and, after graduating in Law in  1718,  he was appointed Vicar of the Diocese of Castro and then Canon at the Archbishop's Palace of Otranto.