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Daily Mail
21 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Revealed: The top 10 trending Greek islands you should book this summer - including a paradise with over 60 incredible beaches
Greece remains a go-to summer holiday destination, with tourists drawn by its crystal-clear waters, ancient ruins and laid-back lifestyle. With record-breaking numbers seen in 2024 – 40 million visitors bringing in almost £20 billion in revenue – the figures for 2025 are expected to be even higher. Now new research shows which of the thousands of Greek islands are surging in interest for holidaymakers. The travel experts at Iglu Cruise have compared Google Trends search data between 2024 and 2025 and narrowed down a top 10 that is really heating up. Among the top islands, there's a mix of classic holiday spots and some new favourites. The destination that saw the biggest increase was Paros, with 283 per cent more people searching for 'holidays to Paros' in the first week of June this year compared to 12 months ago. The island, part of the Cyclades, is known for pristine beaches, classic whitewashed villages, and its prized marble – the same that was used to sculpt the Venus de Milo. 'Paros is easily becoming a top competitor of Mykonos,' said Iglu Cruise. 'Add in windsurfing at Golden Beach and hidden mountain villages like Lefkés, and you've got an island that truly has it all.' While Paros has exploded in popularity, the next island has also seen a huge boost in people searching for breaks on its shores. Skiathos is a nature lover's paradise with a lush pine forest and more than 60 incredible beaches – and it has seen a 110 per cent rise in searches. Culture lovers will head to the historic Monastery of Evangelistria but whatever your interests, be sure to jump on a boat tour, stopping at beaches and caves only accessible by water. Searches for holidays in Mykonos also more than doubled compared to the same period in 2024. The renowned party island still enthralls with its buzzing nightlife but there are also chic boutiques and (rather more sedate) windmills. In fourth place is the postcard-perfect Santorini, with its cliffside villages and caldera views ensuring it remains a crowd favourite. Searches for a getaway are up 89 per cent. While there, be sure to hike from Fira to Oia for an unforgettable sunset. The ancient ruins, brilliant food and rugged gorges of Greece's largest island, Crete, have helped it garner a 55 per cent increase in search interest. The other islands rounding out the top 10 are Rhodes (searches up 53 per cent), Corfu (52 per cent), Kefalonia (44 per cent), Kos (26 per cent) and Zante (13 per cent). This week, British tourists escaping to a popular Greek island this summer were being urged to double-check their flight times after one visitor was left stranded due to a strict airport curfew. Night flights from Zante are heavily restricted to protect the island's loggerhead sea turtles. The curfew, which has been in place since the early 1990s, aims to minimise disruptions to their nesting patterns at night on Zante's southern beaches, especially during the busy summer months.
CNN
4 days ago
- CNN
US man arrested in Greece after bodies of infant and her mother found in Roman park
A tip from a member of the public to a popular Italian television show led to the arrest on a Greek island of an American man suspected of murdering a baby girl and hiding her mother's body in a busy park in Rome. 'On June 13, in Skiathos, police officers of the island's police department, in collaboration with (Italian) state police… identified and stopped an American citizen, credibly suspected of the murder of a newborn and the concealment of her mother's cadaver, whose lifeless bodies were found in Rome on June 7 inside Rome's Villa Doria Pamphili Park,' Rome police prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi said in a statement Friday. The body of the baby girl, thought by Italian state police to be between six and 10 months old, was found under bushes in a corner of Rome's largest park on June 7. A few hours later, a child playing in the park noticed an arm sticking out from under a black garbage bag, leading to the discovery of the naked body of a young woman, thought to be in her late 20s or early 30s. DNA tests showed that the woman was the baby's mother, police said in a press conference on June 11. Initial autopsy reports were inconclusive in the cause of death of the woman, they said, adding that she had no visible wounds. The baby, whose stomach was empty, showed signs of strangulation. Unable to identify the bodies, police released photos of the mother's extensive tattoos. These tattoos were shown on June 9 on the popular missing persons TV show 'Chi l'ha visto?' ('Who has seen him/her?'), which invited the public to call in with any information about the identities of the mother and child. Several people came forward, including some who had seen the young woman and her baby in various soup kitchens in the city, and another who had witnessed an altercation between the woman and a man in a central square in Rome, according to witnesses featured in 'Chi l'ha Visto.' Police had been called to that incident and took the man's details. No arrest was made at the time, but the information led to the man's identification. The woman's details were not taken at the incident. Photos reported to be of the man, covered in blood from a head wound, sitting next to the woman and the baby also surfaced as a result of the TV appeal, as well as a photo of the man without the woman – with the clearly crying baby girl in his arms – talking to police just two days before the infant was found dead. The woman, whose body was in a more advanced state of decomposition than the baby's, according to police, was not seen in the photo. The United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation also helped by tracing the man's credit and SIM cards, police said during a press conference in Rome on Friday following the arrest. The suspect's identity has not been officially released in Italy, but he has been widely named in the Italian and Greek media. CNN will not publish his name unless and until he is charged with a crime. Police told CNN on Monday that they still had not been able to confirm the identity of the woman or her baby, but DNA testing was underway to determine if the American arrested in Greece was the baby's father. The US embassy in Rome said it provides consular services to any Americans arrested, but it would not comment specifically on this case. CNN has been unable to determine if the man currently has an attorney. The Italian prosecutor's office said it will seek the man's extradition from Greece, which could take up to three weeks. Barbie Latza Nadeau reported and wrote from Rome and Antonia Mortensen reported and wrote from Milan. Additional reporting from Juan Pablo O'Connell.
Washington Post
13-06-2025
- Washington Post
American arrested in killing of infant found with dead mother in Rome park
ROME — An American man was arrested Friday afternoon in Greece in the killing of a baby girl whose body was found along with her dead mother last week in a park in central Rome, Italian authorities said. Italian prosecutors said that there was not enough evidence to charge the man, who was arrested on the Greek island of Skiathos, with killing the mother because the cause of her death had not been determined.
Irish Times
13-06-2025
- Irish Times
Italy arrests US man over mother and child deaths in Rome park
Italian police arrested a US citizen on Friday in connection with the death of a woman and her baby daughter whose naked bodies were found in a park in central Rome . The man, who was not named, was arrested on the Greek island of Skiathos, Rome's chief prosecutor, Francesco Lo Voi, told reporters at a news conference. The case has grabbed headlines in Italy since the mother and her child, who was less than one year old, were found dead on Saturday in Villa Pamphili, Rome's largest central city park. None of the people involved have been named, and prosecutors in the case told reporters they had still not been able to identify the mother or the child. READ MORE Italian newspapers have reported that the mother and child were also US citizens, but prosecutors did not confirm this. Mr Lo Voi said the arrested man had declared he was the father of the child, and there was 'robust evidence' that he had killed her, while the cause of death of the mother was less clear. The suspect flew to Skiathos from Rome on Wednesday, and his DNA would be examined to establish whether he was the father, the prosecutor said. He was arrested based on evidence including witness accounts and surveillance camera footage, while the fact he had flown to Greece shortly after being seen with the victims 'in itself doesn't count in his favour,' Mr Lo Voi said. Lead prosecutor Giuseppe Cascini said the man had been seen with the child in his arms after the presumed time of death of the mother. The evidence against the suspect was particularly strong regarding the death of the child, Mr Cascini said, but the case was 'a probable dual murder'. The prosecutors thanked the US FBI for its help in identifying the man, and the Greek authorities for their role in the arrest. The man, woman and child were first seen together in Italy in April, and there was no record of any of them in the country before then, they said. —Reuters
CTV News
13-06-2025
- CTV News
Police arrest American on Greek island suspected in Rome deaths of a woman and infant
A view of the St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican and Rome's skyline, Sunday, Jan.1, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) MILAN — Greek authorities detained an American man Friday on the Greek island of Skiathos suspected of killing an infant found over the weekend in a Rome park and of having a role in the death of the infant's mother, whose body was found nearby. The American, who was not identified, was detained on a European arrest warrant issued in Italy, and he will be formally arrested when the warrant is forwarded, Greek police told The Associated Press. The suspect will appear before a judge in an extradition hearing next week and has the right to challenge his transfer. The bodies of the baby girl and mother, also identified as Americans, were found in Rome's Villa Pamphili park on Saturday, the Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported. The mother's body was under a black bag, having been killed several days before the infant, who was found several hundred metres (yards) away in undergrowth. Police in Rome have refused to comment on the case, and a news conference was scheduled for later Friday. Police theorize that the man killed the infant after returning to the park where the mother's body had been left, the paper said. Their relationship with the suspect was not immediately clear— but police said they had been traced to a shelter for the needy near the Vatican, where they appeared to be a nuclear family. Authorities were able to track down the suspect thanks to fingerprints on the bag covering the woman and a scrap of a tent like ones provided to people without shelter, the newspaper said. He was located Greece with mobile phone data. According to the newspaper, the woman, who was around 30 years old, had a tattoo of a skeleton on a surfboard. Kantouris reported from Thessaloniki, Greece. Colleen Barry And Costas Kantouris, The Associated Press
