The commune of Wilkowice with its main villages Wilkowice, Bystra and Meszna is picturesquely surrounded by the mountain tops of the Silesian Beskids and the Little Beskids, located in the southern part of Silesian Voivodeship in the vicinity of the city of Bielsko-Biała. Wilkowice is one of the oldest villages in the Żywiecka Valley (the so called Wilkowiecka Gate), established in the early 14th century by the Cistercian monastery in Rudy.