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The Buttero's daily life revolves around the rounding up and tending to large herds of cows, the 'vacche maremmane', on horseback. The entire Maremma region was once covered in marshes and swamps that stretched all the way out to the Mediterranean sea. The area was drained in the early part of the Twentieth Century, although a few swamps and marshes still exist.