Traditionally, the pilgrimage to the Great Rujno 15th of August with a procession and Mass in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, beginning at 11.00am and the evening festivities at the waterfront with gastro Starigrad table, fireworks and band concert magazine will mark this year’s celebration of the Feast of the Assumption and the Municipality Day Starigrad .
This year Podgorci will feast of the Assumption on 15th August pilgrimage to the Great September, the highest plateau of Velebit located at 900m above sea level. This tradition lives from the time when they lived and died on the slopes of Velebit, and survived, mostly from stock. The population would be from many mountain hamlets on the day gathered in the church of Our Lady. The church was built “With God and Stari Grad on the honor of the Assumption don Ante Adžija 1930”, the legendary Starigrrad pastor and mountaineer, he writes on the front of the church. Although the 60-ies of the last century lifestyle changes, people moving to the coast and turning to tourism, Velebit remain deeply woven into the consciousness and the life of the local population and the tradition of pilgrimage to the Great Rujno kept up to date. This will be the feast of the Assumption in the church of Our Lady held Mass and a procession starting at 11.00am. In the evening at the central waterfront Starigrad held a big feast, with a rich feast table, fireworks and band concert magazine. As this day is also the day the municipality Starigrad, 16.kolovoza will hold a ceremonial session of the Municipal Council Starigrad and the new cemetery to lay wreaths in honor of fallen for the Fatherland.
