The biggest Christmas market is held in the old town of Innsbruck, where every day at 5 p.m. wind players, standing on the balcony of the Golden Roof, play traditional Advent music. Men with traditional wooden masks go from inn to inn to ring in carnival. In the same way, carnival is rung out when it is over. In exciting duels horsemen try to floor the wampeler and to throw them on their backs. In Jungholz winter is driven away by a big fire on the first Sunday following Ash Wednesday.
Young men collect wood and build a stake at which a straw doll, the symbol of winter, is burned.
In February, throughout the Tyrol there are numerous balls which are organised by various associations and institutions.