Cimitile is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about 25 km northeast of Naples. As of 31 December 2017, it had a population of 7 172 and an area of 2.74 km2.[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.