View of Monteleone di Spoleto

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, (42°39′N, 12°57′E), at 978 meters (3209 ft) above sea-level overhanging the upper valley of the Corno River. In Italy, the comune, (plural comuni) is the basic Administrative division of both provinces and regions and may be properly approximated in Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest The Province of Perugia (Provincia di Perugia is the larger of the two provinces in the Umbria region of Italy, comprising two-thirds of both the area Umbria is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. The capital is Perugia. The Corno River is a small watercourse of the northern Lazio and eastern Umbria in Italy. It is one of the remoter 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). Norcia is a town and Comune in the Province of Perugia ( Italy) in southeastern Umbria, located in a wide plain abutting the Monti Cascia is a town and Comune (township of the Italian Province of Perugia in a rather remote area of the mountainous southeastern corner of Leonessa is also the name of a Frazione of Bassano Romano. Leonessa is a town and Comune in the far northeastern Rieti (Reate is a town in Lazio, Italy, with a population of 47332

The population of the comune was 662 according to 2003 census figures, with the town proper accounting for about half of that; the frazioni of Monteleone are Butino, Rescia, Ruscio, and Trivio. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. A frazione, in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a Comune; for other Administrative Ruscio is a village of east central Umbria, a Frazione of Monteleone di Spoleto, 42°38N 12°58E in the upper valley of the Corno River

Monteleone, or more precisely Ruscio, 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. The Monteleone chariot is an Etruscan Chariot dated to ca 530 BC. 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. For the festival in South Carolina see Spoleto Festival USA. Spoleto ( Latin Spoletium) is an ancient city in the

The main monument in Monteleone is the church of S.  Francesco, with an attractive cloister now serving as a lapidary museum, an exceptional Gothic door, probably the best in Umbria; and a unique 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. Christ is the English term for the Greek ( Khristós) meaning "the anointed " A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight Unusually, 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, chief among them the clock tower.

External links

• Pro Loco (The town's volunteer tourist bureau)
• Archeoambiente
• Bill Thayer's site

The initial text of this article was adapted from Bill Thayer's Gazetteer of Umbria, by permission.