The Rio Cannas, also called Rio Matzeu, bisects the town of Sestu; its current appearance is the result of various hydraulic rearrangements carried out over time to ensure the safety of citizens.
In the past, years of exceptional flooding caused repeated overflows of the watercourse that prevented free passage from one part of the town to the other.
Between 1902 and 1904, following various disasters, high masonry embankments were built within the village and an iron bridge was constructed to replace an earlier one made of stone and wood.
In these years, to allow crosswalk of the Rio at the height of Via Parrocchia, an iron footbridge just over thirty meters long and about two meters wide was also placed, consisting of a single span and with the pedestrian surface covered with natural wood planks.
The construction technology echoes the ways of iron buildings of the late 1800s of which the Eiffel Tower is the highest expression.
This element represents the common European cultural matrix.
