Cimitile

Cimitile is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about 25 km northeast of Naples.

[3] In antiquity Cimitile was the necropolis for the town of Nola, and it was here that Paulinus of Nola founded a monastic community in the year 395.

Cimitile founded itself inside the coemeterium nolanum, the Paleochristian basilicas.

Cimitile borders the following municipalities: Camposano, Casamarciano, Comiziano, Nola.

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