Regions

Santorini, Mykonos, Paros, Naxos. Famous for good reason, and entirely manageable if you get the hours right.

Milos, Folegandros, Sifnos, Amorgos, Serifos, Kimolos. Same light, same sea, a fraction of the people.

Not an island so much as a small country: four mountain ranges, a Bronze Age civilisation, and its own kitchen.

Corfu, Kefalonia, Lefkada, Zakynthos, Ithaca, Paxos. Green, Venetian, and the closest Greek islands to Malta.

Rhodes, Symi, Patmos, Karpathos, Nisyros. Medieval, Italian, monastic — the Aegean's most layered islands.

Skiathos, Skopelos, Alonnisos, Skyros. Pine forest to the waterline and Europe's largest marine park.

The city, the coast below it, and four islands an hour from the port — Hydra, Spetses, Aegina, Poros.

Mycenae, Olympia, Epidaurus, Monemvasia, the Mani. The densest concentration of history in Greece, and you can drive it.

Forty-six stone villages, the deepest gorge in Europe by ratio, and arched bridges over glacier-clear water.

The mountain of the centaurs: chestnut forest running down to two different seas, and skiing above a beach.

Three peninsulas of pine and clear water, and the best eating city in Greece behind them.

Prespa's lakes, Kastoria's furs and frescoes, Nymfaio's bears, and the highest skiing in Greece.