Europe's most popular cities are being overrun, as record-breaking tourist numbers turn once-scenic streets into overcrowded, chaotic hotspots.

While popular islands struggle under the weight of their own success, tiny Antiparos remains blissfully unspoiled.

Rhodes – capital of the Dodecanese and the fourth largest island in Greece – was among the first of the Greek islands to welcome holidaymakers en masse to its coastal hotels and long stretches of ...