The civic coat of arms of Nociglia has a grey background and it represents a walnut-tree and three white lilies in a green meadow. The origins of the first inhabited centre are still uncertain since there are no historical documents about them. Maybe this small town was founded by the people who had managed to escape from the destruction of Castro, happened in 1537 or by the survivors of Vaste, that was razed to the ground in 1147 by Guglielmo il Malo. According to a legend on this territory there was  a particular place where some witches used to gather and pick up the fruits of the walnut-trees to make magic potions and. Therefore the toponym might derive from "walnut", that  also appears on the civic coat of arms. During the feudal age the king Tancredi of Altavilla gave Nociglia to the knight Maranotte, who was also appointed Earl. The last vassals were the princes of Tricase and the Gallones, that  governed for an along period until  1806. One of the most famous local characters is  Domenico Marzotta. He lived in the XIX century and he was an esteemed priest. He supported a lot the construction of the Mother Church. Vincent Longo lived between the XVIII and the XIX centuries and he became an excellent lawyer. Franceco Del Bene was born in 1841 and he distinguished himself for his intelligence since he was a little boy. He graduated in a short time  in medicine, at the University of Naples. He became a famous doctor and he wrote a lot of works. He died when he was 36 years old.