A Coruña, the Galician town with the most ‘luck’ in El Gordo de Navidad

A Coruña is the Galician town with the most ‘luck’ in the Christmas Draw, because up to seven times the Fat man has fallen in the Herculine city. After A Coruña is Lugo, awarded four times with a first prize that went three times to Oak (A Coruña), which exceeds a group of four towns –Santiago, Vigo, Vilalba and Pontevedra– where El Gordo fell two years.

The autonomous city of Melilla is the the only region in Spain where the ‘Gordo’ has never fallen of the Extraordinary Draw of the Christmas Lottery, after the provinces of Ávila, Tarragona and Zamora abandoned the list of those not awarded with this grand prize in 2018, endowed with 400,000 euros per tenth.

The ranking of the luckiest places is still led one more year by the city of Madrid, where the ‘Fat’ 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 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 a total of 42 ‘Fatties’ have fallen in the city since 1817, the last one fell last year.

These two large cities are followed in terms of fortune by Seville, 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 They have been graced with the ‘Gordo’ repeatedly throughout history. This is the case of Malaga, where the first prize has been awarded 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 (Lérida), 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.

In 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) .

Of provincial capital cities, it has only fallen one time 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.