Includes FREE planning and background information.Artists adore southern Sweden. Down here the light is softer, the foliage brighter and the shoreline more dazzling and white. A quick trip south of Malmö is a bona fide Viking settlement and some of the country’s finest birdwatching opportunities. Just to the north, picture-perfect, erudite Lund is Sweden’s answer to Cambridge. Northeast of Skåne lies the upstaged county of Blekinge, splashed with deep forests and fish-filled lakes and once seat of Sweden’s 17th-century sea power. Topping its crown is the naval city of Karlskrona, a Unesco World Heritage–listed pairing of brutal fortresses and grandiloquent design.