The name of the village of Kaštel Stari (Old Castle) probably comes from the castle, the seat of the Koriolan Ćipiko castles, which was built in the village by the Trogir noble Koriolan Ćipiko.
In the area of the future Kaštela Starý, Croatian settlers founded the villages of Radun and Šušnjar already in the early Middle Ages at the transition from the coast to the mountains.
After the fall of Bosnia, due to fears of Turkish expansion, the villages were abandoned and the local population settled in fortified settlements by the sea, which were protected by castles. The first castle for defense against the Turks was built in 1480 by Coriolanus Cipiko (also Cepio, Cippico, Ćipiko). He intended to build a fortified village with ramparts and a moat, he built towers at the corners and set up a drawbridge at the entrance. Later, two more castles were built on the sea, Celio Cega and Andreis. The Ćipik family divided their property into two parts, in each of which there was a fortified settlement with a castle. The settlement near Coriolanus's castle was called Kaštel Stari, and the settlement near Pavel Cipika's castle was called Kaštel Novi.
At the time of World War II, the village fell as an administrative unit of the Dalmatian Governorate, the Province of Split within the semi-autonomous territory under the Italian occupation administration from 1941 to 1943