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San Leo () is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Rimini in the Italy region Emilia-Romagna, located about southeast of Bologna and about southwest of Rimini. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").
San Leo is the location of a large fortress, situated at an elevation of above sea level. The San Leo Co-Cathedral is a Romanesque church.
San Leo was also supposed to be served by the , also known as the subappenine railway, which would have connected Santarcangelo di Romagna with Urbino. The project was intended to provide an inland alternative to the Bologna–Ancona railway, whose coastal position made it vulnerable to bombardment. It was abandoned in 1933, but some tracks had already been laid in the section from Santarcangelo to San Leo. Some of these tracks were reused by the Rimini–Novafeltria railway along a new post-war alignment. Viaducts of the former Novafeltria route are still extant among farmland, as well as a tunnel in Il Peggio built for the subappenine railway, which became a Fungiculture.
After the referendum of 17 and 18 December 2006, San Leo was detached from the Province of Pesaro and Urbino (Marche) to join Emilia-Romagna and the Province of Rimini on 15 August 2009. Article about the legislation Article on "il Resto del Carlino"
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