The monastery of Iveron is situated above a picturesque inlet on the north-eastern side of the peninsula, close to the site of the earlier lavra of St Clement.
Great Lavra is the earliest and biggest foundation on Mount Athos, founded in 963 by monk Athanasios and this event marks the change-over on Athos from the individual ascethic life to organized monasticim. The chosen site for the monastery was probably th