The civic coat of arms of Campi Salentina is a sheaf on a blue background. In the territory of Campi there were two menhirs called Sperti and Candido, two stones where people used to worship their Gods. We are not certain about the origins of this village. It was probably founded by those who survived the destruction of the hamlets of Afra, Ainoli, Firmigliano and Bagnara but we do not know when this happened. It could have been in the 9^th century by the Saracens, or in the 6^th century by the Goths, in both cases the fugitives were attracted by the flourishing countryside around this village. When the Normans came, the King Tancredi gave this territory to the Bishop of Lecce and Campi became Bishop See. In the 13^th century the Emperor Frederic of Swabian used to spend here his summer holidays. From the 15^th to the 17^th centuries the village was ruled by the Maremontis, the Paladinis, the Erriquez and the Filomarinos. In the 18^th century Campi was ruled directly by the Bourbons and the king Ferdinand IV of Bourbon decided that in Campi were to be set the prices of wine and grain. Among the famous people from Campi we remember: Antonio Cazzato lived between the 17^th and the 18^th centuries and was an appreciated Latin poet. Pietrantonio Bari was born in 1776 and was a good priest, mathematician and philosopher. He taught in many secondary schools and died in 1834. Ferrante Palazzo lived in the 16th century and was a priest specialized in Canonic Law. Domenico Licci was born in 1768 and became a soldier in Napoleon I’s army. He was a very good physician especially for cholera but died himself for this disease. Antonio Travisi lived in the 16th century and was a famous Engineer, he worked mainly in Rome also at the Tiber River. He was very rich and built his own Palace in Naples where he died. Errico Erriquez was born in 1701, he became cardinal and died in 1756. Luca Piccoli lived in the 18th century, he took his degree in Medicine in Padua and became an appreciated physician.