 The territory surrounding the "comune" is, for the largest part, mountainous with elevations ranging between a minimum of above sea level to the north-east to a maximum of on its southern flank.Due to its geographical position Monghidoro, which the writer Giordano Berti has described as the "Crossroads of Europe", in the course of the centuries became a necessary passage between the Po Valley and Central Italy.The name of Monghidoro is thought to be dating back to the times the Ostrogoths, Byzantines, Langobards, who were pillaging and looting at will up and down the Italian peninsula around the 8th, 9th century AD.