Maremma

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Maremma
Landscape near Capalbio, Tuscany
Area of Maremma
Coordinates: 42°42′N 11°12′E / 42.70°N 11.20°E / 42.70; 11.20
Country	Italy
Region	Tuscany northern Lazio
Area [1]
• Total	5,000 km2 (2,000 sq mi)

The Maremma (/məˈrɛmə/, Italian: [maˈremma]; from Latin maritima, "maritime [land]") is a coastal area of western central Italy, bordering the Tyrrhenian Sea. It includes much of south-western Tuscany and part of northern Lazio. It was formerly mostly marshland, often malarial, but was drained by order of Ferdinando I de' Medici.

It was traditionally populated by the butteri, mounted cattle herders who rode horses fitted with one of two distinctive styles of saddle, the scafarda and the bardella.^{[citation needed]}