Monteleone di Spoleto, is the highest capital of the municipality in the mountain. Located over 200 m above a fertile arable basin, it is crossed longitudinally by the river Corno. The territory is inserted in one of the most pleasant and interesting natural and landscape corners of the entire Central Apennines, the Coscerno-Aspra Natural Park, characterized by imposing mountain reliefs covered by woods interspersed with wide pastures and small fields cultivated especially with Monteleone's PDO spelt and lentil.

The human presence presumably dates back more than 3000 years ago, as the traces of a settlement found not far from the capital tell us. The population probably belonged to the ethnic group of Naharci identifiable with the native populations of the average Valnerina.

It was often a territory of conquest due to its strategic position due above all to the road junction with transverse routes connecting the great Roman consular roads, which cross Umbria and Sabina, and the mountain ones that reach Spoleto, Cascia and Norcia.

The Castle, surrounded by solid walls, bulwarks, lookout towers, doors, windows and divided into tertieri, preserves inside the town planning typical of medieval fortresses and Renaissance with gentle palaces, humble houses and churches that look indistinctly on alleys and squares. Chariot, Iron and Spelt are his excellences.

The Chariot, “parade and procession wagon”, in walnut wood entirely covered with gilded bronze foils worked on cantilever, was produced around the second quarter of the 6th century. BC was found in 1902 in excellent state of preservation, in a mound tomb in the locality of Colle del Capitano. Since 1903 this exceptional exhibit has been preserved and exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The Iron coming from the ancient deposits of M. Birbone and worked in the iron shops of the hamlet of Ruscio, produced, among other things, the two middle side gates of the Basilica of St. Peter and those who closed the Pantheon in Rome. The “Triticum dicoccum”, a variety of 'farre' cultivated since always in Monteleone di Spoleto, for its specificity, uniqueness and quality, obtained the PDO mark on 21/05/2007.