| Monteleone di Spoleto | |
| Official Name: | Comune di Monteleone di Spoleto |
| Province: | (PG) |
| Frazioni: | Butino, Rescia, Ruscio, Trivio |
| Mayor: | Marisa Angelini |
| Area Total Km2: | 61.58 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 648 |
| Population As Of: | 28 February 2010 |
| Population Demonym: | Monteleonesi |
| Elevation M: | 978 |
| Saint: | St. Nicholas |
| Day: | 6 December |
| Postal Code: | 06045 |
| Area Code: | 0743 |
Monteleone di Spoleto (in Antiquity, the Roman town of Brufa), is a town and comune of Italy, in the province of Perugia in southeast Umbria at 978 meters (3,209 ft) above sea-level overhanging the upper valley of the Corno River. It is one of the more remote towns in Umbria, on a mountain road from Norcia and Cascia (33 km and 12 km NNE respectively) to Leonessa and Rieti in the Lazio (10 km S and 51 km SSW). It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").[2]
The population of the comune was 648 in 2010, with the town proper accounting for about half of that; the frazioni of Monteleone are Butino, Rescia, Ruscio, and Trivio.
Monteleone is famous for one of the world's great archaeological finds: a 6th‑century BC Etruscan chariot that quickly followed the path of money and by the early 20th century had already wound up in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. A copy of the chariot is on display in Monteleone. There remain, however, few if any traces of the town's Roman days: destroyed and rebuilt by the Spoletans in the 12th century, it offers at present an essentially medieval appearance.
The main monument in Monteleone is the 14th-century church of San Francesco, with a cloister now serving as a lapidary museum, a Gothic door and a fresco of Christ crucified in the full robes of a bishop, with a loaf of bread under one foot and a chalice of wine under the other. Under the cloister, a second church can be seen, complete with a 14th‑century fresco. Other monuments include several other medieval churches, the 15th‑century Palazzo Bernabò, and vestiges of the town's medieval walls, including a clock tower.