The article says there is no accurate record of how the castle was built. A wooden fortress stood on the hilltop at the time of the Hungarian conquest, and later walls were stone. The infobox gives the 10th century for construction. It stands on a former volcanic hill 223 feet (68 m) high.
After 1242 Béla IV ordered castles built and reinforced, and Charles Robert hired Italian masters to strengthen it. István Báthory built the ring-shaped bastion of the upper castle. Zsuzsanna Lorántffy expanded it with French architects, and work for Ferenc II Rákóczi ran from 1705 to 1710.
It has a high, middle and low castle over 150,700 square feet (14,000 m²), with 130 rooms joined by underground passages. It was re-roofed in tile after an 1834 fire. The Mukachevo Historical Museum is inside.
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