Amsterdam.

Left: “The Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) is a 15th-century church in Amsterdam, consecrated in 1409, and located on Dam Square, next to the Royal Palace.”

Bottom right: “Baruch Spinoza, born Benedito de Espinosa; 24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677, (later Benedict de Spinoza); was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin. By laying the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy. Along with René Descartes, Spinoza was a leading philosophical figure of the Dutch Golden Age.”