The civic coat of arms of Collepasso has five hills on a blue background. On the first hill on the left there are some ears and a bunch of grapes, on the last hill there is an olive tree and a star with eight points. The village was probably founded in 272 B.C. when the Romans built several defensive centres all along the ionic coast in order to protect themselves from the attacks of Taranto. We do not know exactly the etymology of the name ‘Collepasso’. It could derive from  “collis pascorum” that is hills for pasture, or “collispassus”, that is ‘duty free area’  or “Colopatii” that is the union of two names  ‘Nicolaus’  and ‘Ippatius’. We know from a document of 1722 that the name of the old village was St Nicola. In 1270 the village was given to Rodolfo di Zandino. Riccardo Martello gave the village to the Monastery of St Mauro in order to save his soul. In 1276 the land was given to Ugo Sumeriaco. In 1291 the village was ruled by Pietro De Noha, Goffredo De Noha and in 1378 by Riccardo Di Donato. Nobody was living in Collepasso before the Turkish invasion of 1480 and the Venetian invasion of 1484 because many people used to find shelter in fortified building such as those of  Galatina and Soleto and some historic documents certify it. The land of Collepasso was ruled by Geronimo Guarini, his son Domizio, his sister Laudomia, her cousin Vincenzo Guarini. Pietro Massa bought the land and ruled it for a long time.  It was then ruled by the Clodinos, the Della Cuevas and the Leuzzis. The last person to rule the village was Elisabetta Pagan. Among the famous people from Collepasso we remember: Giovanni Pomarico (physician) and Giuseppe Manta (beloved priest of the village).