The answer is - Southern Europe/Mediterranean.
The renaissance was period of rebirth of the science, ideas, politics, from the antique period, mainly based on the societies of the Roman and Greek cultures. This two cultures were considered as very advanced and that they were representing the right way to lead to progress in the societies. This period also marked the overthrow of the power of the church, both in political sense and into the daily life of the people, and the beginning of the scientific revolution on the European continent, and leaving the Dark Ages behind.