The first paper documents testify to the existence of Miggiano in the twelfth century. In 1156 Guglielmo il Malo destroyed the city of Vaste and residents, dismayed and fleeting, withdrew into the valley where stands the present inhabited and partly in the original location Torrepaduli. Testimony mixture of peoples from which the country is of the same name which, over the centuries, evolving from Mesiano in Misianus, and then Misciano Miggiano of Paduli in 1600 and finally Miggiano.

The historical existence of the country is evidenced by two documents of Naples, one of 1182 and another in 1272, in which it is named, the "village of Miggiano".

In 1190 the Count Tancredi of Lecce gave the fief of Miggiano together with that of Specchia and Taurisano Filiberto Monteroni.

The historical events of the country remember the looting and massacres done by the Turks in October of 1480, in which women and children were abducted and the raids of the Venetians, in June of 1484, which completely devastated the country. And 'only through the mercy of Acquaviva Bellisario, who had the criminal and civil jurisdiction for that period, that the few remaining inhabitants they were able to escape the terrible famine that afflicted the country for a long period.

In 1486 the fief of Miggiano passed to the Bishop of Castro who lost the only jurisdiction in 1808 in favor of the Archbishop of Otranto, until in 1866 it was forfeited to the Royal Property.
The criminal jurisdiction belonged first to the family Gallone and then to that of Vernaleone, then lost only after the abolition of feudalism by the Law of 2 August 1806.
The ecclesiastical jurisdiction always belonged to the bishop of Ugento.
This is what he wrote about the origins of an anonymous Miggiano in 1876 on a document to the acts of the City.

One hypothesis suggestive, but not for this little real, instead traces the origins of Miggiano the Bronze Age. Fact, the presence on site of human habitation dating back to this period is evidenced by the discovery of various standing stones and caves carved into the stone.
Among other things, the numerous messapiche and Roman tombs found in 1878 are a clear sign that the origins of the country would be much older than reported in the paper and thus well before the twelfth century.

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