POPULAR TRADITIONS Sampeyre; Villar locality; Bay 2002. The four "Sapeur" (zappatori) that they precede the paraded one in custom; pull down to axe blows the barriers left from the invaders in escape. The festivity of the Abbadia was instituted in order to commemorate the hunting from Sampeyre (CN) of the Saraceni and of the Maomettani happened in century X and from then every is celebrated five years. Photography of and. Piccini