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.
This holiday is 50 days after Easter. Stores closed Monday. Austrian schools are also closed Tuesday. On Whitmonday, the Whitsun Kings in Arbesthal, southeast of Vienna, wear hazelnut branches in homage to spring. This is the second Thursday after Whitsunday.