Ex Monastero delle Clarisse, Baroque monastery in Cerreto Sannita, Italy.

The Ex Monastero delle Clarisse is a baroque monastery in Cerreto Sannita with a spacious footprint and classical architectural features from that era. The building remains a defining landmark with its stone structures and decorated interior spaces.

Founded by Francesca Sanframondi, widow of Pietro de Cadenet and chamberlain to Queen Giovanna I of Naples, the monastery received its apostolic foundation letter on 3 January 1369, sent to Bishop Giacomo da Cerreto. Caterina Sanframondi, the first abbess, governed for thirty years and enriched it with houses and lands. Rebuilt after the earthquake of 5 June 1688, it housed the Urbanist Poor Clares until the 20th century.

The church attached to the monastery keeps an 18th-century floor of Cerreto Sannita ceramics in its pronaos. In the atrium of the former monastery stands a marble tomb made for the second abbess, Margherita Sanframondi; it was found in 1842 in a room of the building and interpreted by Nicola Rotondi in 1843. The name of the school complex honours Pope Leo XIII.

Access to the site requires advance planning since it functions today as both a historical monument and educational facility. Visitors should check beforehand for visiting conditions and current access arrangements.

The tomb of Margherita Sanframondi, second abbess, was found in 1842 in a room of the building during the abbacy of Maria Beatrice Pacelli; the marble monument is now kept in the entrance hall of the former monastery. Its relief shows the abbess, and Nicola Rotondi interpreted the inscription above it in 1843.