Monfumo is a tiny village located on Asolo Hills, in Veneto, Italy.
ONVIS jeans and its life stories were born there.
The very first ONVIS jeans tells us about a guy called Arminio who was a worker in the 'Piumaella' mine.
It was 1940 when Dario Callegari, owner of a spinning factory, employed a few dozen of workers to draw brown coal from the underground.
Arminio was one of these young workers, only 24 years old with 3 sons already.
Being both strong and clever Mr. Callegari decided to promote him to the head of the 'Colpien' site, which later then had been extended to the Piumaella mine.
The mine entrance was located under a creek bed, hence the risk of flooding was quite high. In fact the gallery often got filled with water but the use of pumps normally avoided any further damages.
This was until 1948 when unfortunately, at the end of January, the water suddenly broke the dikes and overflew the galleries.
The site's entrance bursted and Arminio and his colleagues got blocked inside. While the water was rising and the light was fading out, the boys slowely lost any hope of surviving. However as Arminio knew those galleries perfectly, he managed to lead his mates towards the burners that opened up close to the 'Valle delle Fate' ('Fairys' Valley') and all of them escaped savely.
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