There is a very attractive trip (28km/17mi east of Naples) from Naples to Nola (34m/112ft; pop. 32,000), where St Paulinus (354-431), a native of Bordeaux and an accomplished poet, is said to have invented the church-bell (hence the Italian word for a bell, campana, Nola being in Campania); his feast, the Festa dei Gigli ("Feast of Lilies"), is
celebrated with great pomp on the last Sunday in June. In the Piazza del Duomo is a bronze statue of Augustus, who died here in A.D. 14. The cathedral, built over the remains of an ancient temple and rebuilt in 1870 after a fire, has a fine crypt. In the Piazza Giordano Bruno is a monument to the philosopher Giordano Bruno, born in Nola in 1548, who was burned at the stake in 1600 in Rome as a heretic.