Technical monuments
On the Soła river, at the foot of the Little Beskids, an embankment with a clay core closes Lake Żywieckie. The Tresna Dam was built from local materials — thick-bedded sandstones and gravel — and completed in 1966. Its crest is 300 m long and about 10 m wide.
Flooding the valley, the reservoir swallowed the villages of Zarzecze, Tresna, Zadziel and Stary Żywiec. Today the lake serves retention and recreation, and the dam has become the symbol of the village.
Tresna is the uppermost link of the cascade: below, past the Międzybrodzie Lake, water is pooled by the Porąbka Dam of 1937, and since 1979 a pumped-storage power plant has operated on Mount Żar (761 m) — from the dam you can see the peak with its cable car.
A voivodeship road runs right along the dam — parking is easier on the village side, near guesthouses and water equipment rentals. A shoreline path leads towards Międzybrodzie, and boat cruises start from nearby piers.
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