Helsingør (Elsinore) and Kronborg Castle

Shakespeare's Hamlet is set in and around Kronborg, a castle in the town of Helsingør (known in English as Elsinore), Denmark. I was interested in the setting of the story, and I found this travel journal: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/travel/denmark-elsinore-hamlet-shakespeare-hometown.html

The author writes about Helsingør's recent renaissance. The town, which is just 30 miles north of Copenhagen, enjoyed centuries as a prosperous royal outpost by levying taxes on foreign trade ships passing through the Øresund, a strait which forms the Danish-Swedish border. However, it declined in the 1980s with the collapse of its shipbuilding industry. But the town has experienced a recent revitalization, and now it has many cultural venues, public artworks, and cultural festivals. The journal's writer calls Krongborg Castle's architecture "a curious marriage of Lutheran restraint and Renaissance pomp." At the castle courtyard, many performances are staged, including the famous "Shakespeare at Hamlet's Castle." 2016 was a special for Kronborg because it was the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death and the 200th year since Hamlet was first performed at castle.