The Poor Clare Sisters of the Monastery of Turi – beautiful, with its cloister and annexed Saint Clare Church – have considered prayer and work a holy blessing, living in full harmony with Saint Clare rule and Saint Benedict’s Ora et Labora,  for the past three centuries.

While living in a cloistered community had strict rules, the nuns found autonomy enough, between a prayer and a chant, to manage all the convent’s activities. A great part of their time was spent in the kitchen, as they were keen on the arts of cooking and baking: the fire in their stoves and ovens kindled with coal and wood, they’d use old cauldrons and baking trays, stone pestles, molds, pans, wood and copper ladles to make ancient, secret recipes rooted in tradition.