The construction of the bridge, designed by engineer Guallini and inaugurated in 1860, was carried out by the Meazza company.

[1] Its realization was part of a broader project to modernize the city of Ivrea, which until then had only one bridge, the Ponte Vecchio, which dated back to Roman times.

[1][2] The new bridge and its new avenue, Corso Costantino Nigra, absorbed the majority of the traffic, as they formed the new axis connecting the city center to the Ivrea railway station.

[1] On October 15, 1926, with a resolution of the city council the bridge was dedicated to Princess Isabella of Bavaria, Prince Tommaso, Duke of Genoa's wife.

[1] The bridge is located at a point where the course of the Dora Baltea river is particularly narrow, just before the riverbed widens again, about a hundred meters downstream from the Ponte Vecchio and about fifty meters upstream from the Ivrea Railway Bridge.