Siklós Castle, Medieval fortress in Siklós, Hungary

Siklós Castle is a medieval castle on a low hill in the centre of Siklós. A white-plastered rectangular palace wing with a red hipped tile roof stands inside a circuit of rough grey stone walls topped by a crenellated parapet. At the front left, a round stone tower pierced by an arched gateway leads to a long covered ramp descending across the grass. The white facade has rows of small dark windows and a projecting balconied opening on the right wall.

The fortress first appears in written records in 1294 when it belonged to Comes Siklósi Gyula. Over the centuries that followed, it underwent many rebuilding phases, absorbing architectural styles from different eras.

The castle's Gothic chapel, built in the 14th and 15th centuries under the Garai family, has a tall single-nave interior ending in a late Gothic sanctuary with tracery windows. Above the entrance carved with the Garai snake coat of arms, a Gothic window was uncovered. Two patron's niches also came to light.

The museum occupies the castle's eastern and southern courtyards, renovated between 2009 and 2011 with a visitor centre added. Exhibitions fill the former residential wings, including a Tenkes Captain waxworks and displays of Renaissance furniture and medieval weapons. The round tower gateway at the front left leads onto a long covered ramp down to the grass.

In 1401 Hungarian nobles rebelled against King Sigismund and held him prisoner in the castle. The barons could not agree on a successor, so on the advice of the local lord Garai Miklós they restored him to the throne. Sigismund later sealed the alliance by marrying a daughter of Count Cillei, as did Garai.