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50 days after Easter, Sunday and Monday; May – June· Holiday
Pentecost (Pünkösd)
A Christian feast held 50 days after Easter; Whit Monday is a day off by law in Hungary.
Pentecost (Pünkösd) is a Christian feast held 50 days after Easter, so its date varies each year between May and June. In Hungary Whit Monday is a public holiday by law.
In Hungarian folk tradition Pünkösd welcomes summer and youth: villages keep old customs such as horse races to choose the "Pentecost king" and the girls' "Pentecost queen" procession.
The feast
Festive services are held in churches, and hundreds of thousands of Hungarian pilgrims gather at the shrine of Csíksomlyó in Transylvania.
Photos
Esztergom Basilica · Pudelek / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 
Matthias Church in Budapest · Perituss / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 
St Stephen's Basilica in Budapest · Tom Corser / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 
The dome of the basilica · Random photos 1989 / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 
The coloured roof tiles of Matthias Church · D4m1en / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 
Inside the basilica · Bahnfrend / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hungary: other days
- January 1New Year's Day
- January 22Day of Hungarian Culture
- February 25Memorial Day for the Victims of Communism
- March 15Day of the 1848 Revolution
- April 16Holocaust Memorial Day
- May 1Labour Day
- June 4Day of National Unity
- August 20State Foundation Day (St Stephen's Day)
- October 3Founding of the Organization of Turkic States
- October 6Memorial Day for the Martyrs of Arad
- October 231956 Revolution and Republic Day
- November 1All Saints' Day
- December 25Christmas
- Sunday and Monday after the first spring full moon; late March – AprilEaster
- The Friday before Easter; late March – AprilGood Friday