The current appearance of the ensemble of the Monastery of St. Clara of Assisi is the result of meticulous restoration work carried out to repair the damage caused by the bombing of 4 August 1943 and the subsequent fire. The restoration work returned the monastery to its original Gothic appearance. The first church, built between 1310 and 1328 at the request of Robert I of Anjou and his wife, was consecrated in honour of the Corpus Christi, and its current name is due to the Clarissi monks who settled here. The interior of the basilica is formed by one grand hall lit by tall Gothic windows. On the sides of the hall stretch galleries with side chapels. The main attraction of the interior is the majestic main altar, fortunately untouched by fire, with the Trecento Crucifixion. In its apse and near the entrance to the sacristy are the tombstones of the Angevin monarchs of the fourteenth century.
The main attraction of the cloister, now owned by the Franciscans, is its cloister (cloister courtyard), with gardens, arcades, alleys, bosques, columns and benches covered with majolica tiles. The idea for this decoration belongs to D. Vaccaro, and the majolica tiles with pastoral and mythological subjects were made in 1740 by Donato and Giuseppe Massa.
