Downtown Washington looked like an entrenched camp on Monday, 48 hours before the inauguration ceremony under close surveillance by US President-elect Joe Biden, who again called for the unification of a divided country.
The huge esplanade of the "National Mall", where thousands of Americans flock every four years to attend the ceremony, is padlocked.
Thousands of soldiers from the National Guard, the Army Reserve, have already been deployed, and they will be up to 25,000, Wednesday in the capital, to protect a large "red zone" from the Capitol to the White House.
The elected president will travel this Wednesday in a convoy to the Capitol where the inauguration ceremony will begin at 12 noon local (5 p.m. GMT) on a large platform set up opposite the vast esplanade of the “National Mall”.
Back, in pictures, on the preparations for the investiture ceremony of Joe Biden.
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