The civic coat of arms of Cannole has a reed on a brown background. Cannole belongs to the Grecia Salentina because Greek and Greek religious rites were still used in 17^th century. Some scholars think that the village was founded by a son of Scipio the African. Other scholars think that Cannole was founded in the 12^th century when Vasto and Muro (two villages in the nearby) were destroyed by William the Bad and the fugitives hid among some tall thickly-planted reeds. In this case the name of the village would derive from ‘canne’ which is the Italian word for reed. The Norman King Tancredi included the village in the County of Lecce, then it belonged to the Principality of Taranto. The Castrocuccos and the Sambiase ruled in the 14^th century. The Sanseverinos ruled in the 15^th century and the De Electis, the Personès and the Granafeis ruled until the 1806 when the feudal system came to end. The village was saved from the Turks by divine intervention.  They had already sacked Otranto and were moving towards Cannole. When they arrived at the walls of Cannole they took their shoes off in order to prevent useless noises but a divine appearance stopped their feet frightening them and forced them to run away. The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Constantinople was built there where this miracle took place. Among the famous people from Cannole we remember Giuseppe Villani. He was born in 1863, took his degree in Medicine and worked in the Hospital of Naples for a long time. He always worked as a doctor also for the most famous European clinics and wrote important scientific works as “Medicine and physicians”. He died in 1933.