World Heritage Day 2018 - Diana's Delahaye

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Ouch, we missed out on World Heritage Day on Wednesday, also known as International Day For Monuments and Sites. Several places of historical interest designated as such by UNESCO were free to visit. All archaeological sites in Egypt registered on the World Heritage List, for example, allowed students in for free, announced the country's Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anany. It was meant as a chance to inform everyone about the efforts involved to protect and conserve, but also to tell them just how vulnerable these sites are. There are 1,052 of such places scattered over the whole globe and 55 of them are in danger, say UNESCO, including the birthplace of Jesus, Church of the Nativity and Pilgrimage Route in Bethlehem.

Well, we missed it, but will try to remember you next year. Perhaps of less importance, but historically interesting never the less is the stunning 1949 Delahaye Type 175 Roadster seen here. The car was sold new to a British millionaire living in Paris, but was sold some years later to British film star Diana Dors. She drove a Rolls-Royce at the age of 20 but saw the Delahaye in its bright blue hue in Paris and decided that she even preferred that over a brand new Rolls... The car was sold at auction once more a couple of years ago.

(Words editor, picture RM Sothebys)

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