The civic coat of arms of Tuglie represents a blue background on which there is a titlark and two five-pointed stars. The origins of this centre are  very ancient as the presence of four megaliths dating back to the Bronze Age testifies. The names of these menhirs are: Monte Primo, dell'Incrocio, Scirocco e delle Nove Croci. They were fixed on the ground or on the rock by the native populations and were probably used to adore the gods.  They are outside the urban centre and they are not in good conditions. The origins of the first village are still mysterious: according to some historians some Greek,  attracted by the good climate and  fertility of the ground, settled here while other historians think that the first village was built during the Roman domination when a group of farmers  built their own houses. According to this thesis, therefore, the toponym comes from the Latin word "tulli"  meaning the people belonging to the lower class. Probably, however, the name of this small town comes  from the thujas of the trees that in ancient times grew in abundance on the territory. The feudal age, in the Salento, began after the arrival of the Normans and the first certain news data back to 1270, when Tuglie was governed by Alberigo Di Montedragone. Later the feud was acquired by Gervaso De Matino, but in 1480, it was razed to the ground by the Turks, and  it  stayed desert until the XVI century. After the arrival Fillipo Guarini, the new feudal vassal,  the centre was repopulated and  became bigger and bigger. The last vassals were the  dukes Venturi, that governed until  1806, year in which  the feudal regime was suppressed. Among the most important native people of Tuglie is Giuseppe Mastore. He was born in 1903 and he became an agriculturist. He wrote some satirical works whose purpose was to condemn the politicians of his time. He died when he was 78 years old.