Santa Chiara, Carpi

Santa Chiara and the adjacent monastery are a Roman Catholic church and Poor Clares nunnery respectively, located on Corso M. Fanti 79 in central Carpi, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

The monastery was founded in 1490 by Camilla Pio di Savoia, born to a noble family of Carpi, who became a nun in 1500 and died four years later.

In the 17th century, one abbess was Eleonora, sister of the Cesare d'Este, Duke of Modena.

[1] The church underwent reconstruction in a Neoclassical style in 1845, although the interiors maintain the Renaissance architecture layout.

The church contains works by Luigi Asioli, and a Nativity by Giulio and Giacomo Francia and a Madonna of Soriano (1639) by Giovanni Maria Botalla.