The history of Sanarica is lively and interesting. It is assumed that between the 9th and 10th centuries AD a small group of survivors of the attack by the Saracens who destroyed the city of Muro Leccese took refuge in the surrounding areas, founding new inhabited centers. Thus it was that some families settled in an area that they considered particularly favorable to human settlement, giving life to what we know today as the city of Sanarica. Other families settled around, actually founding Giuggianello, San Cassiano and beyond. The area, however, was so disputed by these groups that conflicts were not long in coming. It was Giovanni Antonio Orsini Del Balzo who was the first to give clear boundaries to these territories by having towers built on the edge of each fiefdom. For this reason, the coat of arms of the city of Sanarica still represents the five towers that put an end to the disputes. In the village, however, there are also traces of the presence of the Messapians and the Byzantines, peoples who have marked the culture of the whole Salento. These historical evidences of inestimable value resist up to the present day, although the village was destroyed several times over the centuries. Sanarica was part of the Principality of Taranto, then various dominations of the feudal lords followed one another: first the Orsini del Balzo, then the Aragona who entrusted it to the Lubellis and last to the Basurto who held control of the fiefdom until 1806, or until the end of 'was feudal.