Naftiki Evdomada

Naftiki Evdomada, the Hellenic Navy Week, is the Hellenic Navy’s nationwide maritime festival, organised in cooperation with the Hellenic Coast Guard and held every second year at ports across Greece. The institution dates to 1933, and the Navy describes it as a celebration of national significance honouring the relationship of the Greeks with the sea. The 2025 edition ran from Sunday 29 June to Sunday 6 July under the motto “I Ellas en plo” (Greece under way), with events at more than 80 ports and towns across the country.

The week opened at Messolonghi on 29 June, where the Chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff inaugurated the Navy’s exhibition at the port. On Monday 30 June the President of the Republic inspected warships of the Navy and patrol vessels of the Coast Guard under way in the Saronic Gulf. The closing ceremony was held at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre in Athens on Saturday 5 July, before the political and military leadership, with a concert and a drone display.

Warships deployed across the country received visitors at their berths, as did most of the country’s Merchant Marine Academies. Exhibitions of historical and educational character were mounted at the Hellenic Naval Academy, the War Museum, Messolonghi and the Syntagma metro station. The Navy’s band gave concerts from Thessaloniki and Ioannina to Kavala, Chalkida, Rethymno and Agios Nikolaos, and swimming, sailing and running competitions were held nationwide. The edition’s programme, listed region by region on its official site, reached from Alexandroupoli to Crete, Rhodes and the Cyclades.