At Giurdignano there are a lot of historical and artistic monuments to see.  For example you can visit the ancient noble residences as the imposing Baronial Palace, built in the XVIII century on a pre-existing XVI century fortress. On the external façade there are some elegant decorations and a very beautiful balcony. Greco Palace is very enchanting as well, and the typical case a corte too. The Mother Church was devoted to St. Rocco and it was built  in the XVII century where once there used to be  the ancient Church of St. Salvatore. The façade has a beautiful front door, on which  there are  three sculptures situated in two niches containing the statues of St. Vincent and St. Rocco, and  a big window well-adorned.  In this church with nave and two aisles  you can see some baroque altars and very precious canvasses made by Gaspare De Giovanni and Saverio Lillo, both artists of the Salento. Opposite the church there is the XVIII century Column of St. Rocco, that the captain of a ship ( that had escaped from the plague by miracle) made build. Another interesting ancient monument  is the Crypt of St. Salvatore (three aisles) where you can see three ancient altars and wonderful frescos. In territory of Giurdignano there are  two other crypts, that of St Orsola and that of St. Vito. Outside  the inhabited centre there are still the rests of an ancient Basilian Abbey called "Centoporte" because of the several windows. It was a church with nave and two aisles and the walls were all full of paintings . The abbey was used in the XII  century as  a church. The protector of Giurdignano is St. Rocco, that is celebrated solemnly  on August 16th.

The nickname of the inhabitants of Giurdignano is "tignusi" that means "affected with ringworm" . That nickname was given to them because in the past the population were affected with this terrible illness caused by a virus lying under the hair and that causes the fall all the hair. The virus is