Portofino: sea or mountain land?

I asked to myself if Liguria is a sea land, or a mountain land.

Liguria has many mountains behind the coast. Past people lived here in isolated town, always fighting against the invading enemy. It is why I like to define these inhabitants 'mountaineer people', living in an hard environment.
And yes, in front of mountains there is a beautiful sea, the Mediterranean, but I like to think at the sea like an horizontal mountain, with water surface like the roughness of infinite rocky peaks.

Where air is very clear, in some rare winter days, you can see faraway Maritime
Alps (the summits you see are 150 km faraway)!