Designed by the Jesuit Leonardo Ximenes, the bridge over the Sestaione stream was completed between 1780 and 1781. The structure had two elliptical arches supported by lateral trusses and a large pillar in the middle, the base of which rested on the stream’s bed. Destroyed during World War II, it was reconstructed in 1948 "where it was, as it was" by architect Alidamo Preti on the basis of Ximenes’ drawings. A plaque on an elegant fountain in the vicinity of the bridge recalls the admiration of Grand Duke Peter Leopold of Lorraine for the boldness of the construction. The bridge’s impressive structure can best be admired by leaving the main road and taking Via delle Acacie. This bridge and the one on the Lima, inaugurated a few years earlier (1772), for the time represented two remarkable feats of architecture and engineering, situated on the Royal Road into Modenese territory.