The Historian · Femke · Amsterdam
Agnietenkapel
The city refused to be outdone by Leiden, so it started teaching here. Sit in that hall and you're in the seed of the whole university.
A 1470 convent chapel that became the Athenaeum Illustre in 1632 — the lecture hall where the University of Amsterdam began, on the room's original benches.
— Femke, The Historian
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