The scholar Giacomo Arditi claims that the name derives from capra-ricca; in fact in the past the main activity carried out by its inhabitants was goat breeding and milk production.

Worth a visit are the Parish Church of San Nicola Vescovo and that of the SS. Crocifisso, which houses a breathing Christ in wood and papier-mâché of the Venetian school, both from the eighteenth century, as well as the Chapel of the Madonna del Carmine, which annexed the Carmelite convent, from the second half of the sixteenth century.

Also worthy of note is the Palazzo Marchesale, built by the Giustiniani marquises in the 17th and 18th centuries on an initial fortified structure dating back to the Norman period (12th century) of which one of the two towers remains, still visible in the palace garden.

Finally, in Caprarica di Lecce, on the Serra di Galugnano, in the land of megaliths, where one of the largest protohistoric settlements in the area stood, you will find Kalòs, the Archeodromo del Salento, the largest open-air museum in Italy, which tells the story of three thousand years of history.