Collections · eight ways to cut it

[ Lists that cannot go stale ]

Every collection here is a query over the pages rather than a list somebody keeps. Change a crowd rating or a month verdict and these change with it, which is the only way a “quiet beaches” list stays true for longer than a season.

• Go in September, not August21 places · The places where the month you pick changes the answer most: rated best in September and worth avoiding in August.
• Open in winter23 places · What is worth the trip between December and February, on a coast that mostly shuts and in mountains that close their roads.
• The quiet Riviera5 places · The Ionian bays that have not been priced or built into something else, on the busiest coastline in the country.
• No road to it3 places · Places you reach on foot or by boat, which is why they are still like this.
• Ancient and UNESCO10 places · The classical sites and the protected towns, with what each one costs at the gate.
• Thermal water and karst springs5 places · Where the water comes out of the ground, hot or cold, and which season each one belongs to.
• Viewpoints worth the detour6 places · The places on this site whose whole point is what you can see from them.
• What closes, and when12 places · Everything on this site with a season that ends, gathered so a shoulder-month trip can be planned around it rather than into it.