Color and charm Piacentino

The summer is over the door, the autumn with its strong colors and delicate at the same time has passed, giving way to winter able to draw landscapes filled with a unique magic, almost mysterious atmosphere thinned to a light wet dew. The city, the countryside, the mountains are dressed in new clothes, different as always, to discover another land, such as Piacenza, gentle and steep, to see new things, maybe you've seen a thousand times, but never such if we are able to go beyond what they are likely to emerge before ... because we wrote Voltaire
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes ..."
The popular tradition of the province of Piacenza devotes some proverbs in San Simone (San Simon), patron of lumberjacks and fishermen remembered on October 28, in the middle of autumn. In rural culture was used to connect the occurrences to changing seasons that regulate daily activities, said that they were pronounced strictly in Piacenza dialect where words were the perfect harmony, inexorably lost in the translation that, however, we report it is understandable to all.

Quand (a) sum a San Simon i stras ad lana i vegnan bon
Quando siamo a San Simone gli stracci di lana tornano utili
Per San Simone l’autunno comincia a farsi pungente, per cui si recuperano negli armadi gli abiti di lana
A San Simon dröva la pertga e al baston?
A San Simone usa la pertica e il bastone
Quello di San Simone è il periodo giusto per raccogliere le castagne, scuotendo i ricci dagli alberi con pertiche e baston
A San Simon e Giüda chi an ha sumnä, al ludla
A San Simone e Giuda chi non ha seminato, ulula
Ormai è troppo tardi per seminare e chi non lo ha fatto prima di San Simone non può che tormentarsi
A San Simon una musca la väl un milion
A San Simone una mosca vale un milione
Con le basse temperature di fine ottobre, le mosche sono diventate una rarità

pictures (maybe ...) granted by © Giorgio Bertuzzi