There's a volcano waiting to blow on Santorini, but it's not the world-famous caldera.
The dazzling white-washed houses, blue-domed churches and azure skies and sea of this uniquely stunning Greek island pull in a reported 3.4 million visitors a year, far outnumbering Santorini's 20,000 or so permanent residents.
The narrow cobbled streets and cliffside balconies are filled cheek to jowl with vacationers seeking sunset selfies, and locals are disturbed as they go about their daily business. When evening comes, however, the crowds melt away, and some complain the island goes from Times Square to ghost town. In the mid-to-late-20th century, Santorini was still a sleepy idyll where residents got around on donkeys and cultivated tomatoes and vineyards for wine. Now the island's outdated infrastructure is under severe pressure, with the main port at Fira under particular strain.
"The problem is that the social media are showing something completely different from what is the reality," he says. While many, many tourists will be visiting this year, there are also many others who are put off by its overcrowded reputation and are not considering it as a year-round destination for longer stays.Santorini is famous for its stunning sunsets over the Aegean Sea- but you need to know where the best places to see them is.
"Recently, the growth of tourism in Greece has garnered significant attention, particularly concerning the islands of Santorini and Mykonos," said Maria Deligianni, CLIA's regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean, in a statement. "Santorini has one of the most important archaeological sites right now in Europe," says Chimenti. "Why are cruise ships not organizing tours to the archaeological sites? If you split the people in three parts of the island, so at different times they are doing multiple things," then he says, "they have time to enjoy and you will never have crowds in any part of the island.
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