Anno 1500 is a time travel adventure that takes you back to the late 1500s and the township of Lule in the north of Sweden. On a barren place simply called The Mountain preparations for a church holiday are well under way. People here speak several different languages and dialects. You get to meet three characters who represent three branches of a multicultural society. Lule parish, from mountain to coast, has about 3000 inhabitants. Gustav Vasa's son ? John III ? is the king of Sweden. The shift from Catholicism to Protestantism is still very recent. The people of this parish come to the church town to attend mass, trade and pay taxes.