[4] The current name of the municipality is improper, as are the others of Taranta Peligna and Lama dei Peligni, as these centers rise in the eastern part of the mountain Majella, and sit rovano lapped by the Rivers Sangro and Aventine.

In Sant'Antonio a tomb with a bronze helmet was found, the decoration on the shell of a deer or goat, preserved in the Archaeological Museum of the nearby Juvanum, a dagger, a collar, a spiral bracelet, four digital rings and an iron fibula.

It is claimed that near Monte Moresco, between Torricella and Pennadomo, there are remains of a Samnite fortification, built above an even older settlement, attributed to the second millennium BC, from here comes a stone dagger, preserved in the Pigorini Museum in Rome.

The area was occupied by barbarians during the Greek Gothic War of the sixth century AD, in fact there is the discovery of an Spangehelme ostrogoto or a helmet with bands in gilded copper and iron in the locality of Santa Lucia, well hidden inside a cellar of late Roman origin for the construction material, located in a country farmhouse.

The Middle Ages is also the era of Christian affirmation in Torricella, near Juvanum arose the Abbey of Santa Maria in Palazzo (or Monte Moresco), of which the structure is preserved near the ruins; in the tenth century there is the semi-legendary testimony of the coming of St. Raynald, of the Order of the Basilians together with the monk San Falco [it], who settled at a hermitage in nearby Palena.

On October 19 Torricella was officially occupied by the Germans, who in trucks, requisitioned as many men as possible for the fortification works of the Gustav line, rounding up about 100 people, and installing the garrison of the general command in the baronial castle, at the top of the town, where the Obelisk to the Civil War stands.

Giustino Di Riga reached the English command of Roccascalegna, to try to request military action, since he knew well the daily route of the Germans along the Torricella-Fallascoso road to carry out the raids.

In the 1970s, with the construction of the Honda Sevel industrial hub of the Val di Sangro things improved, but Torricella, to get out of anonymity, invested in the memory of the courage of citizens during the Second World War, and in addition to the project of memory, he woven relations with America, about the figure of the writer John Fante, whose father was torricellano; one of the main events of the village is the Festival "John Fante - The God of my Father".