The civic coat of arms of Leverano is marked by a blue background on which  an imposing tower and the letters "L" and "B" are represented. These two letters maybe make reference to the ancient name of this small town, that was Liberanium. Outside  the inhabited centre, in a cave,  some ancient finds of the Neolithic Age have been recovered and that means that man already existed during the prehistory.  Recently some researchers have discovered the rests of a place of Messapian origin where in the VI century B. C.  the  goddess Thana was celebrated. There are no historical documents about the origins of the first settlement, but only some theories. For some historians the first village was founded by a Roman centurion Liberio, who had proved to be a very brave man. Other historians, on the contrary, advocate that the first centre was built by the people who had escaped from the massacre (made by the Goths led by their king Totila) of the near casali of Sant'Angelo and Torricella in 540 B.C. during the Greek domination.  In the IX century Leverano was completely razed to the ground by the Saracens and it was rebuilt  by the Normans in the XI century. The feudal age began after the arrival of the king Tancredi of Altavilla, but the first certain historical news about that period date back to the XIII century, when the feud was annexed to the County of Copertino. Later Leverano was ruled first by  the Bilottas and then by  the Bugiacos, the Chiaromontes (who made the  walls around the town build)the Orsini del Balzos, the Castriotas the Scanderbergs, the Del Tufos and the Pinellis. The last feudal vassals were the Pignatellis di Belmonte, that governed until  1806. Between the most important native people of Leverano there are: Father Pompilio Cazzella, that lived between the XVIII and the XIX centuries. He became a mathematician, a theologian, a man of letters and he taught for many years at the Regio Collegio in  Naples. He was a friend  and a confident of Pope Gregorio XVI. Friar Angelo Capilupo  lived in the XVI century and he was an appreciated theologian and philosopher. Girolamo Marciano  lived  in the XVII century, he was an excellent physician and philosopher and he wrote a lot of  interesting works. Geremia Re lived between the XIX and the XX centuries and he  was an appreciated painter.