Comments on: Santa Chiara Cloister

By: Barbara Koenigs

Barbara Koenigs — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:43:08 +0000

What an incredible site. The beauty is almost to much to imagine.
Tjhank you for showing it.

By: Christine Strom

Christine Strom — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:10:05 +0000

Ciao bella!
Happy New Year! I like your note about Santa Chiara. It is a lovely place. Are the pictures taken now? With oranges, it looks nice, here we have snow and it is very cold!
Baci
Christine

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:09:14 +0000

A beautiful and tranquil spot in the middle of bustling Naples. We loved it.

By: Theresa Sheneman

Theresa Sheneman — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:22:01 +0000

This is very beautiful. I was there 10 years ago while visiting my cousins in Napoli. The photos are lovely.

By: Marina Liburdi

Marina Liburdi — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:23:44 +0000

I was just there over the Holidays! What a wonderful, peaceful place; and the tiles are beautiful.

By: Stef Smulders

Stef Smulders — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:18:37 +0000

Beautiful and very reminiscent of the Portugese way of decorating official buildings.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:08:59 +0000

Beautiful pictures!

BTW — Robert the Wise was the grandfather of Giovanna I, Queen of Naples. It was Giovanna who actually built this church up substantially and made sure all her relatives were buried here with honors. However, after she was assassinated through strangulation by the Hungarians (who were bent on taking over the Kingdom of Naples) her body was dumped in a well somewhere on these grounds near the cloister. Because she had been excommunicated by Pope Urban (due to her support of the other Pope Clemente during the great schism), even today her excommunication remains in effect and her body has yet to receive a plaque to mark it.

(You can read more about it in: The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joann I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily by Nancy Goldstone)