The Leopold II Bridge is better known by the name of Manetti Bridge, from the name of the architect who designed and built it in 1833, Alessandro Manetti, at the behest of Grand Duke Leopold.

The peculiarity of this bridge is the fact that it is the first suspension bridge in Italy built with the technique of wound wire ropes.

The bridge served to connect the grand ducal possessions on the right bank of the Ombrone river (dominated by the Medici Villa of Poggio a Caiano) with those on the left bank, i.e. the Cascine di Tavola area.

Today's spectacular bridge is the result of the 2019 works which restored the arched stone pillars and connected the two banks with a walkway and a cycle/pedestrian path in full harmony with the landscape and equipped with lighting which, at night, makes it particularly suggestive. The intervention was necessary as the original bridge had been definitively demolished in 1944 by the retreating of the German army.

After about a century and careful restoration works, since September 2019 the bridge has returned to connect the two banks of the Ombrone river, definitively reuniting the Medici naturalistic environmental system: the Cascine di Tavola in the municipality of Prato with the Bargo Park in Poggio a Caiano.