The Filakovo Castle In the 12th century there was already the
castle with a square tower, palace and palisade on the volcanic
top of a basalt rock 65m high. In 1551 it was enlarged and
stronged. The middle and lower castle was built with two
pentagonal bastions, walls, entrance corridor and cannon
positions. In the same time the town got the wall with the gates
and bastions as well. The origin of the castle is connected with
the tale about a shepherd called Filek, and his dog Fules, as
they found treasure, from which a castle was built. The old
records says, that a robber knight called Fulko was the owner of
the castle as long as king Belo IV confiscated it in 1246. Then
Matus Csák (1311-1321), queen Elizabeth (1438) and Francis Bebek
were the owners of the castle. The castle was a component of the
defence line against the Turkish expansion in the 16-th century.
In 1554 the Turks captured the castle and had been governing in
and around Filakovo for 39 years. Counts Nicholas Pállfy and
Christooph Tiefenbach li