Elsinore Shakespeare Festival Read more. Kronborg is a magnificent renaissance castle. Description is available under license CC-BY-. SEASON - Show all. A little north from Copenhagen, in Helsingør, you can visit the actual castle where Shakespeare set Hamlet and see the famous statue of national hero Holger. Upcoming performances. It has remained intact to the present day. Previous performances. Visit Kronborg Castle – home of Shakespeare's Hamlet and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Visit the home of Hamlet and a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site. Elsinore Shakespeare Festival. Hamlet's Castle in Helsingør is only an hour from Copenhagen. The playwright's inspiration for the tragedy was the Danish legendary hero Amled and the magnificent castle of Kronborg. It is world-famous as the setting for Shakespeare's play Hamlet and is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Kronborg is a castle and stronghold in the town of Helsingør, Denmark. . In Elsinore, with views across to Sweden, you find the. Immortalized as Elsinore in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Kronborg is one of the. Shakespeare gets wind of Kronborg and. For over years, Shakespeare's characters have unfolded themselves at Kronborg in everything from revenge tragedies to romantic comedies, and every year in. It is world-renowned as Elsinore, the setting of Shakespeare's Hamlet.