Ilok Municipal Museum

Ilok Castle or Odescalchi Castle overlooks the metropolis of Ilok in japanese Croatia. It is built on a hill above the town centre, providing perspectives on the Danube and the Pannonian Plain. The fort changed into at the start built within the fifteenth century by way of Nicholas of Ilok, Croatian viceroy and the king of Bosnia. The Ottomans conquered Ilok inside the sixteenth century. After the victory in opposition to the Ottomans on the Battle of Vienna in 1683, the Emperor Leopold I granted the citadel, huge houses and the identify of the Duke of Syrmia to Livio Odescalchi, nephew of Pope Innocent XI and a member of the powerful Italian aristocratic Odescalchi own family, which might own the fortress for the following centuries.

In the 18th century, the Odescalchis reconstructed the castle within the Baroque fashion. The fort become nationalized by authorities of Yugoslavia in 1945. After a recovery, it was opened to visitors in 2010. The decrease floors host the Museum of the Town of Ilok. Wine cellars of the citadel are the various most famous in Croatia.