The beautiful Greek island where cars are banned that's overlooked by tourists

Hydra is quieter than Santorini and Mykonos, partly thanks to its ban on vehicles (Image: Getty) Part of the Saronic archipelago in the Aegean, just off the Greek mainland, is the 31-square-mile island of Hydra . It is separated from the Peloponnese by a narrow strip of water. Home to 2,000 residents, its numbers swell to 10,000 in the summer as tourists and seasonal workers arrive.

However, this is still nothing compared to the much, much busier islands of Mykonos or Santorini , with the latter being home to 20,000 people and welcoming some 3.4 million tourists last year alone. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.

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