A complete brochure listing all of Vienna's balls in available in mid-November at the Vienna Tourist Board. Rosenmontag is really more a German holiday than Austrian, but you may see store clerks wearing funny hats. Good Friday is a serious day of fasting for most Roman Catholics. You will find a huge veriety of hand-blown decorated eggs, wooden toys and other handicrafts. Easter is observed both Sunday and Monday in Austria.
Beautiful music is performed in the churches.
Many stores and offices are closed from midafternoon Good Friday until the following Tuesday, though these customs are changing. Austrian schools are closed Monday and Tuesday. There are parades at the Rathausplatz and Ringstrasse, which is closed to traffic. Stores are closed. Stores are closed.