The extraordinary sculptural decoration in the town is due to the fact that there was a Jesuit residence here, the first in importance after Prague's Klementinum. In the recent past it was the seat of a social welfare institute. On its enclosure wall there are statues of the Virgin Mary and the patrons of the Jesuit order, and opposite the church there is a sculpture of St. John of Nepomuk with angels and other saints from 1727. The enclosure wall of the church is flanked by other statues, including St. Donatus and St. Leonard, the patrons of good harvests and good weather. The Church of the Assumption dates from 1813, when it was rebuilt after a fire.
Liběšice near Litoměřice
On the way from Litoměřice to Úštěk we find ourselves in a village which, according to the words of a former clergyman, has only three fewer statues than Charles Bridge in Prague.