This tiny island resembles an atoll in Micronesia, but is instead found 300 meters off the southern tip of Corsica. It can be reached, depending on the tide and fitness levels, simply by walking or swimming from Piantarella beach on the Corsican mainland.
Ile Piana (France) —
This tiny island resembles an atoll in Micronesia, but is instead found 300 meters off the southern tip of Corsica. It can be reached, depending on the tide and fitness levels, simply by walking or swimming from Piantarella beach on the Corsican mainland.
Bonafacio Tourisme Office/ Salin Boukhezar
Greece's Cyclades islands are no strangers to boat-hopping visitors, but many overlook Serifos for the more spectacular Santorini or the boozier Mykonos.
Serifos (Greece) —
Greece's Cyclades islands are no strangers to boat-hopping visitors, but many overlook Serifos for the more spectacular Santorini or the boozier Mykonos.
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Though it was once the scene of a bitter clash between Venetians and Saracens, this tiny island has largely existed in isolation. Even today locals speak a dialect that most Croatians struggle to comprehend.
Bok Bay, Susak (Croatia) —
Though it was once the scene of a bitter clash between Venetians and Saracens, this tiny island has largely existed in isolation. Even today locals speak a dialect that most Croatians struggle to comprehend.
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Their name translates as the Bloody Islands, but while Iles Sanguinaires may have had a gruesome past, these days it refers to more relaxing qualities. The uninhabited four islets off the western coast of the French island of <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ajaccio-tourisme.com" target="_blank" target="_blank">Corsica</a> are famous for their "flamboyant" purple sunsets.
Iles Sanguinaires (France) —
Their name translates as the Bloody Islands, but while Iles Sanguinaires may have had a gruesome past, these days it refers to more relaxing qualities. The uninhabited four islets off the western coast of the French island of Corsica are famous for their "flamboyant" purple sunsets.
Courtesy Jeanne Queyrouil
The sea and sky appear to bleed at sunset on Iles Sanguinaires, setting ablaze the reddish volcanic rocks and creating Corsica's best evening displays, according to locals.
Amazing sunsets —
The sea and sky appear to bleed at sunset on Iles Sanguinaires, setting ablaze the reddish volcanic rocks and creating Corsica's best evening displays, according to locals.
Courtesy Jeanne Queyrouil
Spain's beautiful northeastern Costa Brava can get crowded with visitors in the summer, but these seven islands just off the fishing village of Estartit are a peaceful world away.
Medes (Spain) —
Spain's beautiful northeastern Costa Brava can get crowded with visitors in the summer, but these seven islands just off the fishing village of Estartit are a peaceful world away.
Courtesy Estartit Tourism Office
A marine park of 16,000 square meters, the islands host ruins of a wall built by the crusading Knights of the Holy Sepulcher.
Medieval Medes —
A marine park of 16,000 square meters, the islands host ruins of a wall built by the crusading Knights of the Holy Sepulcher.
Courtesy Estartit Tourism Office
Reaching Linosa from Rome is a 24-hour journey -- but it's worth it.<br />This volcanic atoll is closer to the coast of Tunisia than it is to the Italian island of Sicily.
Linosa (Italy) —
Reaching Linosa from Rome is a 24-hour journey -- but it's worth it.
This volcanic atoll is closer to the coast of Tunisia than it is to the Italian island of Sicily.
Courtesy Fabio Tuccio
Linosa's jet-black beach of La Pozzolana has sulfur-yellow and red layers. Its Black Planet bar is popular for sunset aperitifs and private dinners.
Pozzolana (Italy) —
Linosa's jet-black beach of La Pozzolana has sulfur-yellow and red layers. Its Black Planet bar is popular for sunset aperitifs and private dinners.
Courtesy Fabio Tuccio
This lost, wild treasure isle, popular with weekending Romans, is considered by many as the Med's most beautiful.
Palmarola (Italy) —
This lost, wild treasure isle, popular with weekending Romans, is considered by many as the Med's most beautiful.
Silvia Marchetti
Palmarola is a trip back to the Jurassic age, with lush vegetation, fluorescent blue waters, grottoes and massive sea stacks. The Cathedrals are impressive cliffs. I Fucili (the Rifles) are the leftovers of a collapsed natural arc.
Jurassic island —
Palmarola is a trip back to the Jurassic age, with lush vegetation, fluorescent blue waters, grottoes and massive sea stacks. The Cathedrals are impressive cliffs. I Fucili (the Rifles) are the leftovers of a collapsed natural arc.
Silvia Marchetti
This former pirate island with palm trees, sand dunes and emerald waters lies south of Crete in the Libyan sea. There's a dense Lebanon cedar forest, a medieval chapel, Minoan ruins and Roman graves.
Chrissi Island (Greece) —
This former pirate island with palm trees, sand dunes and emerald waters lies south of Crete in the Libyan sea. There's a dense Lebanon cedar forest, a medieval chapel, Minoan ruins and Roman graves.
Courtesy Cretan Villa Hotel
Visitors can cross Chrissi barefoot, but staying the night is prohibited -- camping and campfires are forbidden. The atoll has one small tavern and a bar on Belegrina beach.
Barefoot island —
Visitors can cross Chrissi barefoot, but staying the night is prohibited -- camping and campfires are forbidden. The atoll has one small tavern and a bar on Belegrina beach.
Courtesy Cretan Villa Hotel
This island on Turkey's Aegean coast has been drawing them in for millennia. According to Homer's Iliad, it's where the Greek fleet hid waiting for Odysseus' signal to invade Troy.
Bozcaada (Turkey) —
This island on Turkey's Aegean coast has been drawing them in for millennia. According to Homer's Iliad, it's where the Greek fleet hid waiting for Odysseus' signal to invade Troy.
Courtesy Akvaryum Otel
Fishermen, shepherds and soldiers were once the sole inhabitants of Bozcaada, their legacy is a maze-like town filled with picturesque houses and fish taverns.
Fishing town —
Fishermen, shepherds and soldiers were once the sole inhabitants of Bozcaada, their legacy is a maze-like town filled with picturesque houses and fish taverns.
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With no electricity and no engines, the only transport around this Italian island is donkey "taxi" -- and they're essential.There are no paved streets, just 25 kilometers of mule tracks winding around the island and no fewer than 10,000 steps up and down layers of whitewashed dwellings.
Alicudi (Italy) —
With no electricity and no engines, the only transport around this Italian island is donkey "taxi" -- and they're essential.There are no paved streets, just 25 kilometers of mule tracks winding around the island and no fewer than 10,000 steps up and down layers of whitewashed dwellings.
Courtesy Assessorato Turisma Sicilia
In <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.serifos-island.com%2Feng%2F" target="_blank" target="_blank">Serifos</a>, visitors can explore untouched inlets by foot along trekking routes or take jeeps to abandoned mines.Even in August, travelers can enjoy the luxury of suntanning solo at Karavi and Ampeli beaches, the scent of wild thyme and figs filling their nostrils.
Solitary in Serifos —
In Serifos, visitors can explore untouched inlets by foot along trekking routes or take jeeps to abandoned mines.Even in August, travelers can enjoy the luxury of suntanning solo at Karavi and Ampeli beaches, the scent of wild thyme and figs filling their nostrils.
Courtesy Leonardo de Chanaz
Fewer than 200 inhabitants greet visitors to this three kilometer square island, a former Roman settlement known for its grapes.
Susak (Croatia) —
Fewer than 200 inhabitants greet visitors to this three kilometer square island, a former Roman settlement known for its grapes.
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