Stores are dosed each Sunday. If you want to attend, you must order tickets from a ticket agency at least a year in advance, or you can stay home and watch the live worldwide TV broadcast as you recover from the previous right's celebrating. Stores are closed. On Epiphany and preceding days, young people dressed as the Three Wise Men with a star bearer go from house to house to bring good tidings and news of Christ's birth.
Stores are closed.
Girls might find ball gowns under the tree at Christmas. But in reality, you may attend a ball as early as November and as late as June. Even schools and Kindergartens have balls. The Opera Ball in February is the pinnacle of the Vienna ball seasons, so tickets are at a premium, both in availability and price. A complete brochure listing all of Vienna's balls in available in mid-November at the Vienna Tourist Board.