Villa Favorita, Italian national heritage villa in Baraccola, Italy

Villa Favorita stands on a hilltop in the Baraccola area near Candia, surrounded by a park of about 16,000 m². Its central plan follows Palladian and late-Renaissance models, with a complex symmetrical layout on an octagonal base. Inside are four floors, neoclassical wall decoration and Venetian seminato floors with geometric patterns; a carriage could pass through the ground floor.

Merchant Luigi Ricotti, who gained nobility through trade, commissioned the building between 1798 and 1808. The structure later became the setting for important negotiations that shaped the region's political future.

The villa is also called "Villa dalle cento finestre" (villa of a hundred windows). On the ground floor are a kitchen, a theatre and a chapel, and a carriage could be driven through the building so nobles entered without getting dirty or wet. The upper floors held the owners' rooms, with servants' quarters above.

The site is now used by a research institution and is not regularly open to the public. If you wish to visit, check in advance about special events or occasions when access might be possible.

On 29 September 1860 at 2 p.m., the peace between generals Fanti and Lamoricière after the Battle of Castelfidardo was signed in the villa, then the Italian command headquarters; Ancona was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy. The building is also called Villa dalle cento finestre, and Valerio Zurlini filmed a sequence of La prima notte di quiete inside it in 1972, when it lay in ruins.