Stara Sušica is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

Climate

Between 1960 and 1986, the highest temperature recorded at the local weather station was , on 27 July 1983. The coldest temperature was , on 13 February 1985. A weather station exists above it at an elevation of . The minimum recorded temperature for the winter of 2024–2025 was , on February 20th.

History

The

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DVD Stara Sušica was founded on 12 June 1978, and is today part of the ''VZ općine Ravna Gora''. Its past commanders: # Zoran Škorić (2013–) # Bojan Renka The mushroom festival ''Dani gljiva'' has been held annually in Stara Sušica since 1998.

Demographics

In 1890, Sušica itself had 64 houses and 383 people. Vrh-Sušica had 7 houses and 49 people. Both belonged to Ravna Gora parish. They attended the school in and were taxed by Sušica and were administered and taxed by Ravna Gora.

Infrastructure

There is a water storage unit in Stara Sušica with a capacity of at an elevation of .

Popular culture

In 2020, the castle in Severin was used along with that in

Severin na Kupi Severin na Kupi is a village and part of Vrbovsko municipality, in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, in Croatia. It is situated above the Kupa valley on the part of the D3 (Croatia), D3 highway formerly known as the ''Lujzijana''. It is known for the ...

and the

Gomirje Monastery Gomirje Monastery () is a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Croatia. It is the westernmost Serb Orthodox monastery, located in the western part of Croatia near the village of Gomirje, near the town of Ogulin. The monastery is thought to have been foun ...

as a filming location for the music video of the

županija A ''županija'' (singular; plural ''županije'') is a Croatian term for administrative subdivisions. The etymology is the South Slavic term '' Župa'', which means parish in Croatian. The similar Slovene term župnija is used to mean that. Th ...

anthem. The castle was used as a filming location together with the Severin castle by Marko Kutlić for his 2021 national hit ''Budi moja noć''.

Gallery

Kapela svetog Antuna Padovanskog u Staroj Sušici.jpg, ''Sv. Antuna Padovanskog'' chapel Fish pond in Stara Sušica.jpg, Fish pond in Stara Sušica

References

Populated places in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County {{PrimorjeGorskiKotar-geo-stub