History of the castle goes back to the age of the Roman Empire, testified by the inscription telling about the victory of the II.

[1] The oldest building is a stone rotunda, plausibly founded in the Great Moravian period.

In the midst of the 13th century the castle was the seat of the Baron Jakab Cseszneky, who was King Béla IV's swordbearer.

Later in the 13-14th century, the castle became the residence of Matthew III Csák, the legendary "Lord of the river Váh and the Tatra Mountains".

Which according to legend was dug by a Turkish prince called Omar, who had great love for the beautiful Fatima, whom he had to redeem by digging a well in the rock.