The legend of the three days of the blackbird is lost in the wave of the time. We only know that they were the last three days of January, 29, 30 and 31, and in those days happened in Milan, a very hard winter. The snow had laid a white carpet on all the streets and rooftops.
The protagonists of this history is a blackbird, a blackbird and their three sons. They had come to town in late summer and had set up their shelter on a tree in the courtyard of a building located in Porta Nuova. Then, for the winter, they found a house under the eaves to protect from snow that year was particularly abundant. The cold made it difficult to eat for the commission, the blackbird flew from morning till night in search of bird seed for his family and searched in vain all the gardens, courtyards and balconies of the apartment. The snow covered every crumb.
One day he decided to fly the Blackbird on the edge of the snow, to find a warmer shelter for his family. He continued to snow. The blackbird, to protect merlottini numbed by the cold, moved the nest on a nearby roof, where she came from a chimney was smoking a bit 'of warmth. Lasted three days cold. And the blackbird was gone three days. When she came back, almost did not recognize his wife and sons: they were now all blacks for the smoke chimney. In the first day of February, a pale sun finally appeared and left the nest all winter, even the household head was dark with soot. Since then, the blackbirds were all born blacks, whites became an exception to the battlements of a fairy tale. The last three days of January, usually the coldest, were called the "de trios of the blackbird" to remember the adventure of this family of blackbirds.
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