Toledo continues to be the only capital of the Autonomous Community and is among the five in the country that expect to receive the first prize, the “Gordo”, of the extraordinary Christmas drawing.
The “Gordo” of the extraordinary Christmas lottery draw of December 22 has fallen up to 24 times in Castilla-La Mancha throughout its history, with 2018 being the last year that the fortune was distributed in the Autonomous community, according to data from state and gambling lotteries.
7 TIMES IN ALBACETE
Specifically, in the province of Albacete the ‘Gordo’ of the Extraordinary Christmas Draw fell three times in Albacete capital, in the years 2012, 2014 and 2018; and three more times in Casas Ibáñez, in the years 2003, 2012 and 2018 and in Tobarra, in the year 2018.
For its part, in the province of Ciudad Real the capital was graced with the ‘Grasso’ in 1962 and 2018, Calzada de Calatrava in 1970 and Socuéllamos in 1988.
In the province of Cuenca, luck came to the capital and to Belmonte in 1990 and 2018, to Carboneras de Guadazaón in 2018 and to Huete in 1990; while in Guadalajara he did it in the capital in 1970 and in Molina de Aragón in 1852.
Finally, in the province of Toledo, the city of Talavera de la Reina was awarded the ‘Gordo’ twice – in 1985 and in 2007–, while in Mocejón it fell once in 1990, in Quintanar de la Orden once in 2013 and in El Viso de San Juan in 2018.
MELILLA, THE ONLY REGION WITHOUT ‘FATS’
Nationally, the autonomous city of Melilla is the only region of Spain where the ‘Gordo’ of the Extraordinary Drawing of the Christmas Lottery, endowed with 400,000 euros per tenth, has never fallen. On the opposite side is Madrid, which is the luckiest place in this draw, with 82 times being awarded the grand prize.
The ranking of the luckiest places continues to be led for another year by the city of Madrid, where the ‘Gordo’ has fallen a total of 82 times in the more than 200-year history of the traditional draw, the latest being in 2021. 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 State Lottery and State Betting Society (SELAE), the second luckiest city in Spain is once again Barcelona, as a total of 42 ‘Gordos’ have fallen in the city since 1817, the latest 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 the first prize has been awarded ten times; Santander, Alicante and Granada, nine times.
A Coruña, San Sebastián and Gijón have been awarded seven times; Palma de Mallorca, in six; Badajoz, Lugo and Manises (Valencia), five; Córdoba, Murcia, Sort (Lérida), Vic (Barcelona), Salamanca, Valladolid, Burgos and Pamplona, in four.
The first prize fell three times in Albacete, Casas Ibáñez (Albacete), Benidorm (Alicante), Oviedo, Sabadell (Barcelona), Cáceres, Algeciras (Cádiz), Carballo (A Coruña), Huesca, Boñar (León), Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid), San Pedro del Pinatar (Murcia), Palencia, Vigo, Logroño, Segovia, San Bartolomé 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), Almería, Avilés, El Ejido (Almería), Nava (Asturias), Granollers (Barcelona), Sant Quirze del Vallés (Barcelona ), Coria (Cáceres), Castellón, Ciudad Real, Santiago de Compostela, Cuenca, Belmonte (Cuenca), Almuñécar (Granada), Linares (Jaén), León, Lérida, Vilalba (Lugo), Alcorcón (Madrid), Collado Villalba ( Madrid), Leganés (Madrid) and San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid).
He has also won first prize twice in Alora (Málaga), Marbella (Málaga), Ronda (Málaga), Cartagena (Murcia), Yecla (Murcia), Pontevedra, O Porriño (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 been added to 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 Santoña (Cantabria) in 2021. of Ávila, Girona , Jaén, Tarragona and Toledo have never won the “Gordo” award.
