The civic coat of arms of Miggiano is marked by a blue background, on which there is a olive tree in a green meadow. Until some years ago, there was a beautiful megalithic monument that testified the human presence during the Bronze Age, but now it does not exist any more since it was destroyed. There are no historical documents about the rise of this  village. It might have been  founded by the people who surveyed the destruction of the near villages during the IX- X centuries, after the arrival of the terrible Saracens. Probably, the poor people were attracted by the good climate and  the fertility of the land. The name of this centre might come from the Latin "Miscellaneus" that  means "mixed," and that  makes reference to the  fact that the people  who built Miggiano came from  different villages. At first it was called Misciano and later Miggiano. The feudal age began after the arrival of the Normans when the king Tancredi d' Altavilla gave the feud to Filiberto Monteroni. The small centre suffered serious  damages in 1480, during the Turkish invasion, and after four years that of the Venetians. During that period the village was governed first by Bellisario Acquaviva and, then by the Bishop of Castro. The Archbishop of Otranto ruled Miggiano until 1806, year in which the feudal system did not exist any more. Some of the most important local people are  Diodato Raho and Antonio Vernaleone. The former was born in 1810 and was a brilliant physician and chemist. He was a good teacher too, and he published a lot  of works. He died in Naples  in 1986. The latter  lived between the XIX and the XX centuries, he belonged to a noble family and he tried to improve the economic and social condition of his own village.