Tiggiano (Tiššànu in local dialect), founded perhaps by the centurion Titio, to which they were assigned tere in the division of the Roman conquests. She received after the survivors of the house of Valiano, went falls apart during a raid barbaric .

Its recorded history dates back to 1270, when it became part of the County of Alessano and the Principality of Taranto.

With the arrival of the Angevins in Southern Italy, King Roberto d'Angiò granted the fief of the French nobleman Rodolfo de Alneto, for the support given to the army Angevine. In 1309 it came under the control of the noble family Arcella  of Otranto, who built his own mansion stable, building a courtyard fortified with towers and crenellated walls. Then succeeded the Orsini Del Balzo, the Gonzaga, the Brayda , the Trane and Gallone di Tricase, which, in the person of Baron Don Stefano Gallone, in 1640 sold the estate to the doctor and philosopher Angelo Serafini da Morciano. The Serafini, which in 1740 were linked through marriage to the family Pieve-Sauli of Gallipoli, won the title of baron in 1641 and ruled it until 1806, abolition of feudalism in the year 1806.

To this family also built on ancient defensive structures, the eponymous seventeenth-century building with an Italian garden and a forest of oaks.

Tiggiano is part of the Urbaine Capo Santa Maria di Leuca to join the club of the authentic villages of Italy.

Monuments of interest :

Baronial Palace Serfaini-Sauli;

Church of St Ippazio: Baroque;

The tower Nasparo: fortification and defense, still visible near the coast, dating back to 1500;