Marian Column by Matej Jackel from 1703 in the Paradise Garden of the Franciscan Monastery
The monastery was founded inn 1659 around the chapel of St. Maria from 1623. Florián Jetrich of Zdar, who had visited Loreto in Italy and decided to build a chapel of this type in Bohemia. It was one of the first copies of the Casa Sancta, believed to be the home of Virgin Mary in Nazareth, which had been transfered to Italy by angels after the victory of Islam in the Holy Land.