Iver (Anakopia) mountain and a chapel in New Athos - is one of the attractions of the city.

Iver mountain located on the territory of Gudauta district, is relatively low. Its maximum height is only 344 meters. At the top of the mountain today, you can see the preserved ruins of the ancient city Anakopiya, as well as the ruins of the citadel Anakopia.

Under Anakopia mountain and around the town there are many karst caves, but the main attraction of the mountain, which made her quite famous, was a unique Athos Cave. To visit the cave was discovered in 1975, the picturesque slopes of the Iberian mountains is a stone road paved with the monks. It originates at the foot of the mountain and ends at the top. Iberian mountain decorated with great beauty cypress alley. There were erected building chapels, temples, and a little later - the hotel and a couple of cable car stations. On the Iberian mountain is a beautiful view of the city of New Athos and the surrounding area.

On the hill is the Chapel of Our Lady of Iver, built in 1913, the New Athos monks. It is here, and kept the miraculous icon, which is transmitted from the St. Panteleimon Monastery in Old Mount Athos. According to legend, the icon came to the monastery at the time, when the monks of the temple Iver seen among a sea of ​​fire pillar with a picture of the Mother of God, which, according to the monks, was the defender of the fortress and the mountains.

At the end of VI Art. Arabs wanted to seize the fortress, but all of a sudden they swept the epidemic, killing more than a thousand people. In the entire history of strengthening nobody could take it. Only time, revolution and war could destroy the fortress. The wall behind the Iberian chapel painted by different Christian symbols. It was erected in the XIX century. of the bas-reliefs found during excavations.