Basilisk Tower

The Basilisk Tower is a tall tower located in the midst of Antillia. Part of it serves as a base to Team Belle-Terre. The rest of it is a tourist attraction.

Decription
The Basilisk Tower is over two thousand feet tall. It is a large cylindrical tower, constructed mainly of pink granite and dark red granite, and decorated with plenty of olivine. Green precious stones such as peridots, emeralds, malachite, jade, green tourmalines, green garnets, and green sapphires are inlaid throughout the building. The base is shaped like an eight-layered ziggurat. Atop the ziggurat is the tower, which has an outer coating of pillars, each on ten levels of the tower. The third part of the tower is a smaller cylinder with pillars, and atop is a huge dome with a statue of Zygarde at the summit.

The tower has 120 floors. There is a network of elevators, as well as stairwells for the daring. It is a long and grueling climb to the top. Inside the tower are labyrinthine passageways.

History
The Basilisk Tower was built many years ago by the Antillian Empire to honor the greatness of the empire, as well as to honor the Pokemon Zygarde. The tower took 80 years to build. It was completed under the reign of Queen Athenais. It was the tallest building in the world at the time and remains one of the tallest to this day. The tower served as a place of worship, a market, and a treasure storage.

After the fall of the Antillian Empire, the tower was abandoned. Subsequent kingdoms managed to restore the tower at various times, leading up to the modern times when the tower was modernized. However, the building still has a very ancient feel to it.

Team Belle-Terre uses the tower for its secret operations. There is a hidden laboratory on the second part of the tower where they make use of it. Florine uses it to test her flying machines.

Trivia

 * Towerno29.png Basilisk Tower's appearance was inspired by one of the 68 proposed designs for the Great Tower of London, an envisioned structure that was to be built in London in 1890 (the structure was never built). The design that inspired the Basilisk Tower is No. 29, under the name "A.P.B." - the tallest structure in the collection. Its height is exactly the same as the height of the Basilisk Tower.
 * It is believed that Zygarde has stored a kind of power in the tower that prevents it from toppling in an earthquake, which is why the Basilisk Tower is in pristine condition despite its great age.