The civic coat of arms of Salve is a white dove with an olive branch in the beak, the dove laying on a capital ‘S’.  The territory of this village has been populated since the Prehistory. In 1968 people found a megalithic dolmen but somebody dig around it hoping to find a treasure but people could only find human teeth and bones, fragments of earthware pots dating to the Bronze Age. In the territory of Salve there is an interesting place called ‘Fani’ where several caves still hide ancient archaeological findings. One of the most charming caves is the Cave of the Fairies. The legend says that in 1580 a group of farmers who used to sleep near the cave, saw some beautiful well-dressed young girls dancing in a strange beam of light. They run away frightened and everybody thought that some fairies lived in the cave. Another interesting cave is Basilian Crypt with the rests of ancient frescos. In the same place people found a Messapic town of the 6^th century B.C. The village was probably founded by the Roman centurion Salvius who won the territory of Salve for the courage he had shown as a soldier. The name of the village could even derive from ‘salvia’ since this plant is very common here. The Normans arrived in the 12^th century and in the 15^th century the village was ruled by the Orsini del Balzos. They wanted to protect the village from the violence of the Turkish invasions and built a new fortress with four towers , a deep moat and a drawbridge. Thank to the new fortified building the population survived the Turkish invasion of 1480 as the Algerian later.  The village was also ruled by Antogliettas, the Francavillas, the Scagliones, the Zitos, the Montefuscos, the Valentinis, the Gallones and the Caracciolos of Marano. The latter family ruled until 1806 when the feudal system came to end. Among the famous people from Salve we remember: Vincenzo Colucci (theologian), Francesco Maria Marino (philosopher and physician ), Antonio Alemanno (priest), Francesco Valentini (the first priest of Salve), Giuseppe Maria Veneri (town chronicler and man of arts), Donato Maria De Notaris (poet and theologian), Sansone Alemanno (physician), Antonio Ricci (philosopher and man of arts), Lorenzo Protopapa (physician and philosopher)