Stock photography, photos: Forbidden City Moat - China Stock photos of Moat surrounding the Forbidden City. In the architecture of old Beijing, the inner city is square in shape and the outer city is rectangular. The outer one surrounds the southern side of the inner one; the inner one surrounds the Imperial City; the Imperial City surrounds the Forbidden City and each one is bordered by a deep and wide city moat. Beijing, China. Photograph: © Robert Burch Click for a larger image and more information Keywords associated with this stock photo: Asia, China, Beijing, Forbidden City, moat, water