The Bridge of Cinnabar Steps (Danbiqiao) is a 30 meter wide, 360 meter long elevated stone walkway connecting the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest and the Imperial Vault of Heaven. The people at the bottom of the UNESCO image in the main Tian Tan post are walking on this massive bridge. (It is also 5-10 meters above the ground and it is prudent to keep some distance from the guardrail-free edge.)


View north toward the gate leading to the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest


View south toward the gate leading to the Imperial Vault of Heaven

Notice the building on the left in the with the bright yellow roof in the photo above. Look for it in the Placemarked view to get a sense of scale. The Bridge of Cinnabar Steps is a very wide and very long walkway (30m and 300m as mentioned above and easily measured with Keyhole Pro.)

It succeeds at conveying the sense that the journey along this path is not on a human scale, but rather of a more-than-human (Heavenly) scale. (Same idea as the placement of the Rose window so high up in Notre Dame that you must look heavenward to see it.)