Villa Auditore is Ezio's family villa and home base in Assassin's Creed II.
The villa stands in Monteriggioni, a fortified hill town in Tuscany. After Ezio leaves Florence, his uncle Mario Auditore brings him there and helps him begin training as an Assassin. The property later becomes a substantial upgradeable headquarters where Ezio can recover, manage equipment, and invest in improvements.
Players can renovate buildings and services around the estate, increasing its value and generating income. The villa also contains family rooms, a courtyard, a training area, and a collection of weapons and armor. This makes it both a narrative location and a practical progression system.
The names are easy to mix up: Monteriggioni is the town, while Villa Auditore is the Auditore family's residence within it. Villa Borghese and the Medici family belong to real Italian history, but neither is Ezio's home base in the game.