Before 1860, the road was classified as a mandatory municipal road, as it connected Canicattì, in the province of Agrigento, with Delia, in the province of Caltanissetta. Canicattì built the first 2 km of the road within its territory under the law of August 30, 1868, while the section in Delia’s territory, 5 km long, had already been built before the law came into effect. Afterwards, the Royal Civil Engineering Office drafted the project to connect the right bank of the river to the town. In 1898, the Provincial Administration realized that the access section to the Ciura Bridge, due to its height, could be dangerous, and requested (and obtained) authorization to carry out completion works. From these accounts, it can be deduced that the bridge was built in the early 1860s.
The Ciura Bridge, located in the Calaciura district of Delia, is one of the bridges along today’s SS190 “Sulfur Road,” which links Canicattì–Delia–Sommatino–Riesi–Mazzarino to the Ponte Olivo junction on the Gela–Catania highway, crossing several sulfur mines located mainly in the province of Caltanissetta.