Driving into this industrial hub in the Valle del Chiampo, roughly 23 kilometers from Vicenza, visitors are met with a modern manufacturing landscape. However, the background of this town of 25,589 residents is rooted firmly in Roman antiquity.
Local folklore claims the name stems from *Arx Jani*, marking a former temple dedicated to the Roman god Janus. A more grounded historical theory traces it to *Argenius*, a patrician of the Menenia tribe, whose rural estate (*Argenianum*) eventually gave the modern settlement its title.
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