Tychy

The city of Tychy covers an area of 82 square kilometres and is inhabited by over 130 thousand people. It borders with Katowice, Lędziny, Bieruń, Świerczyniec, Kobiór, Wyry and Mikołów.

There is a subzone of the Tychy’s Katowice Special Economic Zone in the city, which brings together 50 companies and employs approximately 11 thousand people. The Duke’s Brewery has been operating here since 1692. It houses the Museum of Brewing, one of the two Tychy’s museums. You can learn about the history of brewing the “golden beverage” and see what the brewing vats looked like at that time. At the end of the tour, all adult participants will be rewarded with a mug of fresh, unpasteurized beer.

Here the Fiat factory is located, which was built especially for the licensed production of Polish Fiat 126p. At the peak of its activity, the maximum production capacity in the factory exceeded 200 thousand cars per year.

In Tychy, a city stadium was built, which can accommodate 15 thousand people. It can host Champions League matches and qualifiers for World or European Championships.

The famous Himalayan mountaineer Adam Bielecki, who made the first winter ascent to Broad Peak, comes from Tychy. Krzysztof Wielicki, the second Pole to win the crown of the Himalayas and Karakorum, is closely associated with the city. Wielicki is also well-known for his extreme climbing style. As the first man in the history of global Himalayan mountaineering, he climbed the 8,000 metre-high Broad Peak in just one day. Later he became the leader of winter expeditions of Polish Himalayan mountaineers.

One of the Tychy symbols is a so-called “Giraffe”, i.e. the Monument of Struggle and Labour.