Travelers are voting Tenerife, Crete and Santorini as the best of 455 islands in Europe. Also popular are Corfu and Symi in Greece and Mont St Michel in France. Want more? Check out our map of islands in Europe or these 45 islands in Italy.
Tenerife
Recreation / Outdoor IslandsCanary Islands, SpainTenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands; it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area…
Crete
Recreation / Outdoor IslandsGreeceCrete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen…
Santorini
Recreation / Outdoor IslandsSouth Aegean, GreeceSantorini is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast of Greece's mainland. It is the largest island of…
Corfu
Recreation / Outdoor IslandsIonian Islands, GreeceCorfu is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the…
Mont St Michel
Recreation / Outdoor IslandsFranceMont Saint-Michel is a rocky tidal island and a commune in Normandy, France. It is located approximately one kilometre (just over half a mile) off…
Symi
Recreation / Outdoor IslandsSouth Aegean, Rhodes, GreeceThe island has become a haven for tourists from abroad, especially British and Italians, and is now the permanent home of about 120…
143Dodecanese
Recreation / Outdoor IslandsSouth Aegean, GreeceThe most historically important and well-known Dodecanese island is Rhodes (Rodos), which, for millennia, has been the island from which the region…
Mallorca
Recreation / Outdoor IslandsBalearic Islands, SpainMallorca is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is one of the Balearic Islands. About 869,067 people (as of January 1,…
Cephalonia
Recreation / Outdoor IslandsIonian Islands, GreeceCephalonia or Kefalonia (Greek: Κεφαλονιά or Κεφαλλονιά), formerly also known as…
Patmos
Recreation / Outdoor IslandsSouth Aegean, GreecePatmos is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea. One of the northernmost islands of the Dodecanese complex, it has a population of 2,984 and…
