Borgia tower

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Ezio Auditore escaping a Borgia Tower after igniting it.

Borgia Towers are structures within Rome where the Borgia stations Captains to maintain control of Rome. To assist in the liberation of Rome from the Borgia, Ezio Auditore killed each tower's Captain and then torched the Tower itself as a demonstration of the Borgia's humiliation.

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The first Borgia Tower is destroyed as part of the memory New Man In Town, and thereafter the player may locate and destroy any Tower they can reach. Another tower is destroyed as part of the memeory Between A Rock And A Hard Place, although destroying any further towers is optional.

You must destroy a tower's captain before the tower itself can be destroyed. Captains are always supported by large numbers of bodyguards (including Brutes), and the area around a Borgia Tower is always a Restricted Area (guards will be suspicious if they see you). Certain captains will flee into the tower itself if they see you coming: if a captain escapes you must wait until the Captain regroups with his soldiers at the next guard shift to try again (although leaving the Animus and re-entering will bring the Captain out from hiding sooner).

When the occupying Borgia Captain is killed, you must climb to the top of the tower and stand within the wooden look-out area. The game will prompt you to interact: once you do so, Ezio will torch the tower and use a Leap of Faith to escape the inferno. Each Borgia Tower is also a View Point, and the act of destroying the tower automatically triggers the View Point.

To deny the Borgia supreme control over the entire city, Ezio Auditore must kill the Borgia Captain assigned to each tower, and then burn down the tower itself before performing a leap of faith to escape the flaming wreck. When facing a Borgia Captain, he may either flee towards the tower, or face Ezio in combat. If a Captain is allowed to flee to the tower, Ezio must wait until the Captain regroups with his soldiers at the next guard shift before he can strike again. The towers also function as view points for the surrounding area.

Once Ezio has destroyed a Borgia tower, it will function as an Assassin Tower, allowing Ezio to manage his guild at that location. Also, for each tower destroyed, Ezio is able to recruit one more potential Assassin into the guild. After a Borgia tower is destroyed, the district around it will appear much more livelier: crime will decrease, as bandits will start to leave and the number of guards in that area will decrease; citizens will have a more prominent presence in that specific area; shops in that area can now be renovated; and landmarks in that area will also become purchasable.

Captains

Centro District

• Iacopo de Grassi
• Pietro da Siena
• Domenico da Padova
• Belardino da Verona
• Valentino da Siena

Antico District

• Prospero da Siena
• Tommaso di Viterbo
• Ippolito di Foligno

Campagna District

• Francesco da Velletri
• Antonio da Fiorentino
• Battista Borgia
• Ferdinando di Napoli

Trivia

thumb|right|275px|Burning a Borgia Tower

• Borgia towers are surrounded by many crows, whereas view points are circled by a single eagle, one of the symbols of the Assassins.
• If a Borgia Captain escapes, the player may quit the game and reload their save position to make the Captain 'reappear' instead of waiting 12 in-game hours.
• If you kill a Borgia Captain and die before burning the Borgia tower (falling from a high building for example) you'll have to go through the process of killing him again.
• When the final Borgia tower becomes accessible, the Borgia captain will be on top of the tower. If you send your apprentices to assassinate him, they'll appear as if they've teleported and kill him, but stand still until they're out of sight, even when the tower is burning.
• All Borgia Captains with the last name "da Siena" will flee.
• Burning a Borgia tower will automatically activate its view point, saving the player the effort of having to activate it separately.
• The crossbow will not kill a Borgia Captain with one shot. The pistol, however, will do so.
• After the destruction of a Borgia tower, Vigilantes appear to assist Ezio and hold back guards.