Uzhhorod Castle occupies a wooded hill above the Uzh River and has dominated this bend of the valley since at least the 9th century. The current structure is largely the work of the Drugeth family — Italian counts brought here by the Hungarian crown in the 14th century — who built a rectangular keep and diamond-shaped bastions in the Renaissance style that was fashionable in Italy at the time. The result is architecturally unusual for Ukraine: this is a building that looks like it belongs in Mantua or Ferrara.
Inside the walls is the Zakarpattia Museum of Local Lore, which has a reasonable collection of regional archaeology, ethnography, and art. The adjacent Bercsényi Palace houses some of the finer exhibits. The castle grounds themselves are open until late evening and worth seeing at dusk, when the views over the old town and the Uzh are at their best.