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The
construction
of
the
monumental
complex
of
S.Claire
began
in
1310,
by
the
will
of
King
Robert
of
Anjou
and
his
wife
Sancha
of
Majorca.
The
Franciscan
citadel
was
set
up
by
erecting
two
convents:
one
for
the
Clarisses,
and
the
other
for
Franciscan
Friars
Minor.
The
church
is
now
in
its
original
Gothic
style,
with
a
simple
facade
in
which
the
ancient
pierced
rose
window
is
nestled.
In
1742
the
church
underwent
changes
by
the
hand
of
the
architect
D.A.
Vaccaro.
Pompous
coatings
gave
the
complex
a
baroque
aspect.
On
August
4th
of
1943
the
church
was
almost
completely
destroyed
by
aerial
bombardment.
It
was
rebuilt
and
restored
according
to
the
original
Gothic
style.
Ten
years
later
the
church
was
reopened
for
worshipers.
Over
the
centuries,
the
cloister
has
undergone
various
transformations.
The
most
important
was
performed
by
D.A.
Vaccaro
between
1739
and
1742.
Vaccaro
built
two
avenues
which,
intersecting,
divide
the
area
into
four
areas.
Octagonal
pillars
line
the
perimeter,
coated
with
majolica
ceramic
floral
decorations.
The
pillars
are
connected
by
benches
covered
of
tiles
with
popular,
rural,
maritime
and
mythological
scenes.
The
four
walls
of
the
cloister
were
covered
with
seventeenth
century
frescoes
depicting
Saints,
allegories
and
scenes
of
the
Old
Testament.
Inside
the
complex
you
can
see
a
nativity
scene
featuring
shepherds
of
the
eighteenth
and
the
nineteenth
century,
the
Museum
in
which
it
is
possible
to
admire
a
cross-section
of
the
Neapolitan
history
from
antiquity
to
the
twentieth
century,
some
of
the
treasures
the
bombings
of
1943
failed
to
destroy
and
an
archeological
area
with
remains
of
a
Roman
spa.
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