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