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Once more did our Association for preserving heritage successfully put up the nativity scene in the hidden places of Gradež, the biggest nativity scene in Slovenia - 350 nativity scenes were put up and 3000 people visited us just to see them. You can imagine that such a big number of visitors, was a big deal for our village, especially because there are only 260 inhabitants, including the new settlement, and the old Gradež only has 120 inhabitants.

Our Association for preserving heritage prepared the 11th display of nativity scene in Gradež near Turjak, which is the biggest in Slovenia. More than 340 nativity scenes will be on display until the 2nd of January 2019.

The Association for preserving heritage wishes all visitors of our website a happy, healthy and successful year 2019.

At the 90th anniversary of our association a delegation of our members visited a Slovene composer Jakob Jež, an honorary member and our long- time neighbour who now lives with his daughter in Ljubljana.

This autumn our association organized a special visit from fruit growers of Mozirje, who sent us a special »thank you« for a very well organised programme ...

Holiday of dried fruit and in the a morning walk around Trubar's birth parish on Sunday, were very successful, it was especially beautiful because of the 80th anniversary of our fruit drying house.

These days we have harvested the ecologically cultivated millet and very soon there will be a nice smell of millet mash cooking in our pots….

The vocal group Dried Prunes and other representatives of Association for preserving heritage have besides the Alpe-Adria fair attended other events in Slovenia and also Štruklijada in Kumrovec in Croatia.

Also this year has our association organised an evening under the lime tree in Gradež, this is an old village tradition which was revived seven years ago.

Members of our association went on a special educational trip to Gradež (Grado) in Italy.

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