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.
On the other hand, Ávila, Tarragona and Zamora had the fortune of being 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 continues to be 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 city in Spain with the greatest fortune is once again Barcelona since a total of 42 ‘Gordos’ have fallen in Barcelona since the year 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 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.
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, it has only 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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