The civic coat of arms of Botrugno has a crab on a light brown background. On the left side there is a bunch of grapes, on the right there is a comet. In Botrugno there is a prehistoric stone called ‘menhir Montebianco’ where people used to worship their Gods. The menhir is 1.60 m tall but it used to be taller and in better conditions than it is now. There are three hypothesis about the origins of the village and its name: it was probably founded by some Greek colonists who knew how to cultivate the grapes. In this case the name of the village would derive from the Greek word “botrumai” (to cultivate the grapes). The name of the village could derive from the Greek name of Bacchus, the God of the wine and grapes. The third hypothesis says that the village was founded by a group of people who survived the destruction of a close hamlet by William the Bad in the 11^th century. When the Normans came, the King Tancredi gave the village to Lancellotto Capece. It was then ruled by the Maremontis, the Castriota Scanderbergs and finally by the Guarinis. Botrugno was under the administration of Nociglia until 1958. Among the famous people from Botrugno we remember: Oronzo Bello lived between the 19^th and the 20^th century, he was the priest of the village very much loved by the population. Francesco Maria Castriota lived between the 18^th and the 19^th century, he a member of the Castriota family that ruled the village. He loved all kind of art but also of gambling because in this way he lost many of the things he had.