Complesso Monumentale di Santa Chiara
Historic centre, Italy
Santa Chiara offers a change of rhythm in the historic centre, with a cloister whose tiled pillars and benches bring colour into a garden setting. Painted scenes and frescoed walls reward a slower circuit, while the museum, Roman baths and nativity display add different periods of the complex’s history. The adjoining basilica has its own entrance arrangements and a notably spare Gothic appearance following post-war reconstruction. Treat the cloister and church as related visits with separate opening hours, rather than a single timed stop.