Cimitile

Cimitile is a municipality with 7199 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the province of Naples, Campania region.

The nearby towns of Cimitile are Nola, Cicciano, Casamarciano, Comiziano and Baiano.

The community is known located by the shrine over the grave of St. Felix at Nola in Cimitile, about 20 km northeast of Naples, which was among the most important Christian pilgrimage in late antiquity, where since 1978 excavations by scientists from the Institute for Classical and Early Christian take place Archaeology of the University of Münster and the Humboldt University of Berlin. The town's name comes from the word for cemetery cimitero from the 2nd century AD. Near the formerly pagan necropolis the early Christians buried their dead and hid from persecutors. To the monumental complex of the tomb and the Sanctuary of San Felice, a town that still visited the nobles Paulinus of Nola, who later became Bishop of Nola and patron saint of the city, in the year 395 as the reigning governor of Campania in the service of politics developed. It was restored by the existing building and build a new, larger basilica. Over time, a cathedral complex of 13 buildings ( basilicas, churches, chapels ) belonging with its frescoes and mosaics of the most important and fascinating early Christian testimonies of Italy was born. To visit include: the Basilica di San Felice, the Basilica di San Tommaso, the (new) Basilica di San Giovanni, the chapels of San Martyrs, San Calionio, Santa Maria degli Angeli.

1992 Pope John Paul II the excavation site and Pope Benedict XVI. praised the special archaeological significance Cimitiles at a general audience on December 12, 2007.

Demography

Cimitile counts 2,545 households. Between 1991 and 2001 the population increased from 6,537 to 6,840. This represents a percentage increase of 4.6%.