13:00 • 19 dec. 2020
The luck that distributes every December 22 The Extraordinary Christmas Raffle throughout the country does not arrive with the same rain of millions to all corners of Spain and the province of Almería el Gordo has arrived with a dropper, although, fortunately for many, it does not reach 2020 in the situation that the autonomous city of Melilla does, which is the only region in Spain where the ‘Fat’ of the Extraordinary Christmas Lottery Draw has never fallen, after that the provinces of Ávila, Tarragona and Zamora will abandon the list of those not awarded with this grand prize in 2018, endowed with 400,000 euros per tenth.
In the 2018 Christmas draw, which took place at the Teatro Real in Madrid, the city of Melilla was also the only territory that did not receive any of the grand prizes, since in the rest of the 50 provinces of Spain, as well as Ceuta, they were lucky enough to receive part of these expected millions. Instead, Ávila, Tarragona and Zamora they had the fortune to be graced with part of the ‘Gordo’. This desired award went to the Avila town of El Barraco, as well as to the Tarragona municipalities of Altafulla and Camarles; and to the Zamora of Puebla de Sanabria and Quiruelas de Vidriales, and Zamora capital.
The ranking of the luckiest places is still led one more year by the city of Madrid, where the ‘Gordo’ has fallen a total of 80 occasions in the more than 200 years of history of the traditional draw, the last of them last year 2019. In addition, the first prize has gone to Madrid in the last four years (2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019). The first time it was graceful was in 1816.
According to data from the Sociedad Estatal de Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (SELAE), collected by Europa Press, the second most fortunate city in Spain is once again Barcelona since in the city of Barcelona a total of 42 ‘Fat’ have fallen since 1817, the last one fell last year.
These two great cities are followed in terms of fortune Sevilla, with 17, Valencia (13), Bilbao (13), Zaragoza (13) and Cádiz (12). These five locations received in 2018 the visit of the ‘Gordo’ of the Christmas Lottery.
Likewise, other Spanish cities have been graced with the ‘Gordo’ repeatedly throughout history. It is the case of Málaga, where the first prize has fallen ten times; Santander and Alicante, on nine occasions; Granada, in eight.
A Coruña, San Sebastián and Gijón have been awarded seven times; Palma de Mallorca, in six; Badajoz, Lugo and Manises (Valencia), in five; Murcia, Sort (Lleida), Vic (Barcelona), Valladolid, Burgos and Pamplona, in four.
The first prize has fallen three times in Albacete, Casas Ibáñez (Albacete), Benidorm (Alicante), Oviedo, Sabadell (Barcelona), Algeciras (Cádiz), Córdoba, Carballo (A Coruña), Huesca, Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid), Palencia, Logroño, Segovia, San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Las Palmas), Puerto de la Cruz (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), Telde (Las Palmas, Teruel and Salamanca, in the latter it fell for the third time in 2019.
On two occasions, ‘El Gordo ‘was distributed in Vitoria, Elche (Alicante), Almería, Avilés, El Ejido (Almería), Nava (Asturias), Granollers (Barcelona), Sant Quirze del Vallés (Barcelona), Cáceres, Coria (Cáceres), Castellón, Ciudad Real, Santiago de Compostela, Cuenca, Belmonte (Cuenca), Almuñécar (Granada), Linares (Jaén ), León, Boñar (León), Lérida, Vilalba (Lugo), Alcorcón (Madrid), Collado Villalba (Madrid), Leganés (Madrid) and San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid). The first prize has also fallen twice in Alora (Málaga), Marbella (Málaga), Ronda (Málaga), Cartagena (Murcia), San Pedro del Pinatar (Murcia), Yecla (Murcia), Pontevedra, Vigo, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Arrecife (Las Palmas), Cepeda (Salamanca), Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife), Los Realejos (Tenerife), Soria, Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), Alcira (Valencia) and Derio (Vizcaya) .
From provincial capital cities, only has fallen once in Guadalajara, Huelva, Orense and Zamora, although it has also fallen in other smaller towns at some time in history, such as Salou (Tarragona) in 2019
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