MADRID, 22 years old (PRESS EUROPE)
Madrid is the most awarded city in the extraordinary Christmas lottery drawing, winning the first prize 82 times and without fail since 2016, while the autonomous city of Melilla is the only region in Spain where it has never fallen.
The provinces of Vila, Tarragona and Zamora will leave the list of those that have not received this first prize in 2018, endowed with 400,000 euros per tenth.
In the 2018 Christmas drawing, the city of Melilla was also the only territory that did not receive any of the main prizes, as the rest of the 50 provinces of Spain, in addition to Ceuta, were lucky enough to win. of these expected millions.
On the other hand, Vila, Tarragona and Zamora were lucky enough to receive part of the “Gordo”. This coveted award went to the municipality of El Barraco in Avila, as well as the municipalities of Altafulla and Camarles in Tarragona; and the Zamoranas of Puebla de Sanabria and Quiruelas de Vidriales, and the capital Zamora.
The ranking of the luckiest places continues to be led for one more year by the city of Madrid, where the ‘Gordo’ has received a total of 82 chances in the more than 200-year history of the traditional draw, the last of which was in 2021 Furthermore, the first prize has gone to Madrid in the last six years (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021). The first time she was honored was in 1816.
According to data from the Sociedad Estatal de Lotteras y Apuestas del Estado (SELAE), collected by Europa Press, the second luckiest city in Spain is once again Barcelona, since a total of 42 ‘Gordos’ have fallen in Barcelona since the beginning of the year 1817, the last fell in 2019.
These two major cities are followed in terms of fortune by Seville, with 17, Bilbao (14), Valencia (13), Zaragoza (13) and Cádiz (12). These five towns were visited in 2018 by the ‘Gordo’ of the Christmas Lottery.
Similarly, other Spanish cities have been awarded the “Gordo” on several occasions throughout the history of the draw. This is the case in Malaga, where he has won first prize ten times; Santander, Alicante and Granada, nine times.
In Corua, San Sebastin and Gijn have been awarded seven times; Palma de Mallorca, in six; Badajoz, Lugo and Manises (Valencia), five; Crdoba, Murcia, Sort (Lrida), Vic (Barcelona), Salamanca, Valladolid, Burgos and Pamplona, in four.
The first prize fell three times in Albacete, Casas Ibez (Albacete), Benidorm (Alicante), Oviedo, Sabadell (Barcelona), Cceres, Algeciras (Cdiz), Carballo (A Corua), Huesca, Boar (Len), Torrejn de Ardoz (Madrid), San Pedro del Pinatar (Murcia), Palencia, Vigo, Logroo, Segovia, San Bartolom de Tirajana (Las Palmas), Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife), Puerto de la Cruz (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), Telde ( Las Palmas), Teruel and in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the last time in 2021.
On two occasions, ‘El Gordo’ was distributed in Vitoria, Elche and San Vicent del Raspeig (Alicante), Almera, Avils, El Ejido (Almera), Nava (Asturias), Granollers (Barcelona), Sant Quirze del Valls (Barcelona ). , Coria (Cceres), Castellón, Ciudad Real, Santiago de Compostela, Cuenca, Belmonte (Cuenca), Almucar (Granada), Linares (Jan), Len, Lrida, Vilalba (Lugo), Alcorçán (Madrid), Collado Villalba ( Madrid ), Legans (Madrid) and San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid).
The first prize also fell twice in Alora (Mlaga), Marbella (Mlaga), Ronda (Mlaga), Cartagena (Murcia), Yecla (Murcia), Pontevedra, O Porrio (Pontevedra), Arrecife (Las Palmas), Santa Cruz Tenerife, Los Realejos (Tenerife), Soria, Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), Alcira (Valencia), Derio (Vizcaya) and Zamora. Ayamonte (Huelva), where the “Gordo” fell in 2021, has joined this list.
Of the provincial capitals, it has only fallen once in Guadalajara, Huelva and Orense, although it has also fallen in other smaller centers at some historical moment, such as Salou (Tarragona) in 2019 or Santoa (Cantabria) in 2021. of vila, Girona , Jan, Tarragona and Toledo the ‘Gordo’ prize has never dropped.
