1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Noli
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NOLI, a coast village of Liguria, Italy, in the province of Genoa, from which it is 36 m. S.W. by rail, 13 ft. above sea-level. Pop. (1901) 1985. It is a town of considerable antiquity, now decayed, and has an ancient church of S. Paragorio, once the cathedral, a Romanesque basilica dating from the 11th century, with interesting works of art. The diocese has been united with that of Savona.
See A. d’Andrade, Relazione dell’ Ufficio Regionale per la conservazione dei monumenti del Piemonte e della Liguria (Turin, 1899), 100 seq.