| The complex of Santa Chiara was built in the late fourteenth century to the community of Poor Clares. In 1599 they moved to the monastery of St. Giovanni Lionello were replaced by Benedictine nuns. The church was built by the early fourteenth century, and has undergone several alterations over the centuries. Inside the church of Santa Chiara, a single room, there are the wooden crucifix of the sixteenth century and the eighteenth-century altar in polychrome marbles. On the altar is placed a painting of the Madonna delle Grazie, made by the Neapolitan painter Fabrizio Santafede (1590).
The monastery is currently home to an elementary school. |