Nola

Nola is a city and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, in the Campania region of southern Italy. It lies on the plain between Mount Vesuvius and the Apennines. Tradition credits the diocese of Nola with introducing bells to Christian worship, which gives the city a lasting place in the history of church practice. As a settlement on the Campanian plain below the volcano, it belongs to the densely settled hinterland of Naples, and the Metropolitan City of Naples is its present administrative frame. This entry is held for its geographic setting and leaves political and historical detail to later work.