Sucha Beskidzka
(Flag) (Coat of Arms)
Motto: none
Voivodship	Lesser Poland
Municipal government	Rada miasta Sucha Beskidzka
Mayor	Stanislaw Lichosyt
Area	27.46 km²
Population  - city  - urban  - density	9,726 (2003) 354.2/km²
Founded City rights	ca 1305 1896
Latitude Longitude
Area code	+48 33
Car plates	KSU
Twin towns
Municipal Website (http://www.sucha-beskidzka.pl/)

Sucha Beskidzka (before 1961 called only Sucha) is a county town in the southern Poland (see: Sucha Beskidzka county), in the Lesser Poland Voivodship since 1999, previously in Bielsko-Biala Voivodship (1975-1998). Population: 9,737 inhabitants (2002).

It developed strongly in the end of 19th century thanks to railway junction: Krakow - Sucha Beskidzka - Zakopane and Zywiec - Sucha Beskidzka.

Since the beginning of the 20th century it is the centre of the mountainous tourism in this part of the Beskidy Mountains (part of the Carpathians). In the town there are some examples of old architecture: worth seeing is the Renaissance castle (16th cent.), called Little Wawel, the church with cloister (17th cent.) and the old wooden inn, called Rzym (Rome) (18th cent.).

Education

In the town, there is two higher education schools:

• College for the Foreign Languages Teachers (Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych, NKJO, [1] (http://republika.pl/nkjo_sucha/))
• Higher School of the Tourism and Ecology (Wyższa Szkoła Turystyki i Ekologii, WSTiE, [2] (http://www.wste.edu.pl/))

Population

 1827 - 1811 1848 - 1842 1870 - 2280 1900 - 4214 1921 - 5151 1931 - 6004 1939 - 6250 1946 - 5866 (during the WW2 some 400 Jewish population of the town was killed) 1960 - 6599 1970 - 7751 1980 - 8735 1989 - 9754 2001 - 9810 2002 - 9737 

External links

• Official site of the Sucha Beskidzka powiat (county) (in Polish, English and German) (http://www.powiatsuski.pl/)