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Designed in 1999, the bridge connects Piazza Gentile da Fabriano in the Flaminio district with the Lungotevere Cadorna at the Foro Italico swimming stadium in the Delle Vittorie district. Construction work began in 2008.

The project is part of the Parco della Musica e delle Arti (Music and Arts Park) project, running east-west along the Villa Glori-Monte Mario axis along Via Guido Reni to the South Gate of the Foro Italico Monumental Sports Complex.

The work emphasises with elegance and lightness the strong social and urbanistic link that has been created in recent decades between the Flaminio and Delle Vittorie districts.

Costing about 8 million euro, the Ponte della Musica was created on the basis of the winning project of an international design competition, drawn up by Buro Happold of London, an internationally renowned studio (its works can be admired in Abu Dhabi and New York), subsequently assisted by Soc. Carlo Lotti & Associati of Rome, one of the oldest Italian engineering companies, specialised in the construction of bridges and dams. The executive design was carried out by ATP Mario Petrangeli Associati srl with Studio Biggi-Guerrini. Works management, under the direction of Franco Policicchio, was entrusted to Atp Carlo Lotti & Associati and Buro Happold.

The bridge, designed and built for pedestrian, bicycle and public transport traffic, consists of a metal deck supported by two lowered steel arches resting on reinforced concrete piers, which contain the access stairs to the two banks of the river. The dimensions of the deck are 190 metres long, 22 metres wide at the centre and 14 metres at the ends. The free arch has a span (distance from one end of the bridge to the other) of approximately 190 metres. The total weight of the work is 2000 tonnes. The solution proposed and implemented by the designers is characterised by the inclination of the two arches with respect to the vertical plane and the absence of a horizontal connection between them in the area above the deck, to allow a particular sinuosity and luminosity of the architectural image. The central part of the Ponte della Musica houses a corridor for protected public transport. The structure is founded on piles while the left abutment is placed on mobile bearings able to absorb thermal and seismic stresses. The central part is asphalted while the lateral parts are made of wooden staves resting on the steel structure.