San Donnino, Bologna
San Donnino is a Roman Catholic parish church located on Via San Donnino in Bologna, Italy.
History
The church is dedicated to Saint Domninus of Fidenza. A church at the site is documented from 1206. The bell-tower dated from 1399. The church was rebuilt in 1707 but destroyed during World War II. The present church was rebuilt in 1954–55 by the architect Pietro Bolognesi. The main altarpiece is a Madonna and child in Glory donated in 1956 to the church by Annibale Gozzadini.[1]
gollark: Probably not good enough for transmitting big documents or whatever, but that's fast enough for some things.
gollark: You can probably distinguish 4 colors at a decent distance, and switching twice a second seems vaguely plausible, so that's 4 bits a second.
gollark: Can you generate and detect different *colors*?
gollark: Assuming you can switch the light on and off pretty fast, and the magic can respond quickly, you might actually get decent data rates out of it.
gollark: Well, in that case I guess you could do automatic Morse code (or some variant), and if you could make a bright enough light (and maybe focus it on the receiving tower with mirrors or something), that might be longer-range than having to actually see the individual semaphore arms.
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