Capri at the Limit: How Italy's Dream Island Fights the Rush of Holiday Crowds
View of the port of the Italian island of Capri: Here you fight against mass tourism
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View of the port of the Italian island of Capri: Here you fight against mass tourism. © Andreas Heimann/dpa Indeed, its small size (10.4 square kilometers) and its popularity (2.7 million visitors per year) give the island the dubious honor of being considered a large Mediterranean island with the most tourists per square kilometer. Home World Capri at the Limit: How Italy's dream island fights against the onslaught of the holiday crowds Stand: 07/13/2026, 2:52 pm Comments Follow us on Google Capri fights against mass tourism: 2.7 million visitors a year. Around 6 p.m., it felt like I had inherited the place.
Furthermore, The queue advances at exactly the pace one would expect from a means of transport operated since 1907, so that the marina – basically Capri’s large entrance – becomes a bubbling, selfies-picking crowd of tourists, through which various vehicles honk their way. The retired Tommaso explains that the local government has been playing around with such rules for decades, and adds a triumphant undertone that suggests he has single-handedly solved the problem of overtourism, that he remembers a mayor from the 1970s who banned wooden sandals because they caused too much noise. Last year, he banned travel groups with more than 45 people and prescribed the use of wireless earplugs instead of loudspeakers.
In addition, But this summer it got serious when he started imposing fines of 500 euros for anyone trying to sell anything to tourists on public roads.
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View of the port of the Italian island of Capri: Here you fight against mass tourism. © Andreas Heimann/dpa Indeed, its small size (10.4 square kilometers) and its popularity (2.7 million visitors per year) give the island the dubious honor of being considered a large Mediterranean island with the most tourists per square kilometer.
reliability low1/2 sourcesHome World Capri at the Limit: How Italy's dream island fights against the onslaught of the holiday crowds Stand: 07/13/2026, 2:52 pm Comments Follow us on Google Capri fights against mass tourism: 2.7 million visitors a year.
reliability low1/2 sourcesAround 6 p.m., it felt like I had inherited the place.
reliability low1/2 sourcesThe queue advances at exactly the pace one would expect from a means of transport operated since 1907, so that the marina – basically Capri’s large entrance – becomes a bubbling, selfies-picking crowd of tourists, through which various vehicles honk their way.
reliability low1/2 sourcesThe retired Tommaso explains that the local government has been playing around with such rules for decades, and adds a triumphant undertone that suggests he has single-handedly solved the problem of overtourism, that he remembers a mayor from the 1970s who banned wooden sandals because they caused too much noise.
reliability low1/2 sourcesLast year, he banned travel groups with more than 45 people and prescribed the use of wireless earplugs instead of loudspeakers.
reliability low1/2 sourcesBut this summer it got serious when he started imposing fines of 500 euros for anyone trying to sell anything to tourists on public roads.
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