Basel

Basel is a city in Switzerland located where the Swiss, French, and German borders meet. Switzerland's third most populated city, Basel is situated on the Rhine River and was home to Friedrich Nietzsche.
=="Description without Place"==
In "Description without Place," Stevens refers to Basel in connection with Nietzsche:
Things are as they seemed to Calvin or to Anne
Of England, to Pablo Neruda in Ceylon,
To Nietzsche in Basel, to Lenin by a lake. [1]
==References==
1.[http:// http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Stevens_Description.pdf http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Stevens_Description.pdf ]