SWIMMING/BEACHWater shoes are usually useful because of the changing/coarse-stoned, or pebbly ground. But you can also buy them in Italy.
Recommended: sandy beaches in San Lorenzo di Mare, the next town toward Ventimiglia on the coast. When you've driven into the city, the parking lot is located after a traffic light exit to the left, following an underpass. There is also a bicycle rental facility and access to the bicycle route Imperia - Ventimiglia.There are "beach resorts" in various places with or without admission; you can book loungers there, drink cappuccino and similar things, as well as eat and spend the whole day there. Otherwise, you can find nice spots for swimming all along the coast (empty in the off-season), as in Oneglia at the El Penello kiosk (not least because there was always a free parking spot there)... unfortunately, the kiosk always closes at the end of September... but then opens again in May.CYCLINGIt is, in principle, possible from Torretta. However, up here, a certain basic fitness or an e-bike is required because it quickly becomes hilly. To the sea it's downhill, of course -- and then back uphill on the return journey. However, there's now a very nice flat and well-developed bicycle route directly by the sea below on the former railway line from Porto Maurizio / Borgo Prino to Ventimiglia. (The route is supposed to be expanded eastward near the sea and car-free all the way to Genoa, and there are already partial routes on the way there.) Along the route, naturally, bicycle rental (touring bike approx. 15 euro/day), restaurants and ice cream shops, and the possibility to branch off into the adjacent towns...HIKING/WALKSFrom Torretta, you can do quite a bit. The easiest option is to follow the road to Vasia, or travel in the opposite direction to Pianavia (2 km) or further to Pantasina (4.5 km). In Pianavia, you can continue left to Prela Castello (located opposite Torretta on the mountain ridge).More attractive are the paths through the olive groves: To do this, go up the mountain behind the house on the small mule path that leads to a wider cart road. They turn right. - Then, e.g. small (evening) loop to the San Martino church: Take the next opportunity diagonally to the right, a small path along the slope, over a stream, then continue with markings, the church is then impossible to miss. From there, either back or continue on the small paved road (Stations of the Cross) that leads to the Vasia - Monte Acquarone road: right to Vasia and then right onto the road to Torretta and walk back.Or: To the San Martino church and then continue toward Vasia, but at the junction keep left and reach a road fork above Vasia, where it goes left up to Monte Acquarone (nice marked hiking trail, approx. 400 meters elevation gain) and to Lucinasco and right to Pontedassio. Following this direction, with beautiful views over the valley to the sea, after about 1.5 km on the right, there is the possibility to return to Vasia and then proceed through the town back to the church, and thus to the road to Torretta.To Monte Acquarone, as described above, in Vasia at the fork left up the mountain, after a short time, the hiking trail branches off to the left (good shoes with treaded soles recommended!). Walking at a brisk pace from the house takes about an hour up. However, you can also walk along the ridge to the north (entry at the small Santa Maddalena church) and continue for about 7 km until the path, an old trade route, crosses the road from Pantasina to Colle d'Oggia. Then, to the left, follow the road or take shortcuts down via paths on the left, back into the valley to Pantasina, and continue on the road back to Torretta. But that's a day tour that requires fitness, water supplies, provisions, and good shoes.
Or: Up behind Torretta and at the top right onto the cart road through the olives, follow it, it goes uphill and turns in the direction of Pianavia, after a while past gardens with beautiful views over the valley and to the sea and above Panavia there are various possibilities to descend back to the road, to come down before the village or in the town and then orient yourself back left to Torretta.
The small hiking guide by Gert Heller offers many more possibilities, mostly from Pantasina.