Sometimes, capricious chance draws its story on the basis of an exercise in poetic justice. The Gordo of this year’s Christmas lottery wanted to bathe the Atlantic corridor, the politically forgotten and reviled, with millions. Of the 720 million euros distributed by the first prize of the most anticipated draw of the year, around 510 went to Galicia (360 million) and Asturias (150 million). Out of the ten euros that have sprinkled the Christmas manna, seven have ended up in the pockets of the lucky ones of these two autonomous communities, the same ones who are suing the Mediterranean corridor for a railway investment that does not arrive and which condemns these territories of the Cantabrian coast to insularity and isolation. What Asturias and Galicia are denied by Madrid, a lottery rains down on them from the sky to shower both regions with a million dollars like a big train.
The vigilante gamble that sometimes spills over at Christmas also rewards the emptying of Spain: A Fonsagrada, in the mountains of Lugo, which today has just over 3,000 inhabitants, a few decades ago had almost 20,000. Like Mieres, a municipality that will struggle to recover from the decline in mining activity. Though the doomsayers will say that now, with fresh money in their pockets, the remaining few will eventually go to better places. Some will run, like the lucky winners of the local track club.
To add more morbidity to the matter, the owner of the A Fonsagrada administration, Otilia Díaz Pérez, who sold the tenth to tenth series 45 of 05490 is Asturian, from Grandas de Salime. You kept a tenth of the Gordo because the last two digits coincide with the year of birth of her daughter, and she was right about her. A few years ago you sold the second prize of this same lottery on December 22nd.
And even so, despite the Galician-Asturian preeminence, it could be said that this year’s Gordo was very distributed, since one-tenths of the 5490 were registered by some thirty provinces of the national geography, although 86% of the 180 series sold have been distributed by the lottery administrations of A Fonsagrada (Lugo), A Coruña, Moreda de Aller (Asturias), Roquetas de Mar (Almería) and Madrid. The list is completed by Barcelona, León, Vizcaya, Alicante, Castellón, Seville, Valladolid, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Murcia, Gerona, Granada, Las Palmas, Valencia, Albacete, Ávila, Baleares, Cáceres, Cádiz, Ciudad Real, Guipúzcoa, Huelva, Huesca, Jaen, Malaga, Navarre, Pontevedra and Soria. In short, pinches of the orondo prize for almost all of Spain.
Only La Rioja and Cantabria, plus the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, saw the main prize pass. And just like there are the lucky ones there are also the ashy ones. This is the case of a Cantabrian named Chuchi and his son Sergio, who appeared yesterday at the Teatro Real disguised as pope and altar boy. They traveled to Madrid today from Santander and were the first to enter the venue when they opened after six thirty in the morning. They had been, they said, in line for a week. But neither the Holy Father’s attire nor his televised appeal in favor of an altruistic entity served to bring fortune to his homeland. Cantabria will always have Revilla and anchovies.
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Less distributed than Gordo were the second and third prizes. In the case of the second, dropped to 04074, endowed with 1,250,000 euros to the series, it was distributed between the administrations of Puigcerdá and Olot, both in Girona, and Bilbao and Munguía, in Vizcaya. It so happens that the owner of the number 1 administration of Olot, Alfredo Alfaro, who had already sold El Gordo in 2018, this year has distributed 45 series of the second prize per showcase. Two fewer sets, 43, were shipped from Munguía’s No. 3, the majority distributed in a local café.
The third prize came from number 45250, endowed with 500,000 euros for the series, and it went entirely to a Madrid administration located on Calle Alcalá, which had 180 series. Most of the lucky bearers of this number were the workers of the Tragsatec company, a subsidiary of the Tragsa group, which provides services in the field of environment and resource management and is chaired by forest engineer Jesús Casas, who was director General of Rural Development of the Ministry of Rural Development of the Principality of Asturias. Tragsatec took over the entire 45250 series and each owner of a tenth pocketed 50,000 euros. A member of the company’s management communicated the good news to the staff through a loudspeaker. Most of the 4,000 workers had at least a 10 euro quota. Yesterday at Tragsatec little work was done, as is obvious.
The capital of Spain, by demographic logic, was one of the luckiest provinces, with 129 series sold of various prizes. But it is curious to cite the case of a service station in the Tenerife municipality of Granadilla de Abona, which shipped eight tenths of the Gordo, which represents 3.20 million euros. La Chasnera, this is the name of the famous service station, has been distributing some of the important prizes of the Christmas lottery for nine consecutive years. In 2021 they were two quarters and two fifths, for a value of 52,000 euros. He also sold a few tenths of the Gordo in 2018.
As for the two fourth prizes, the early bird 54289, endowed with 200,000 euros for the series, was sold entirely in Calatayud (Zaragoza). The second, however, which corresponded to the number 25296, was the last to jump on the wire, and preferred to be distributed across multiple locations instead of the exclusivity of a single location: Administration 6 in Alicante, which distributed 86 series; 1 in Órgiva (Granada), with 30; Bueu (Pontevedra) and Esplugues de Llobregat (Barcelona).
In addition, there has been a pinch of this award in the municipalities of Alicante, Asturias, Ávila, Badajoz, Burgos, Cádiz, Cantabria, Castellón, Las Palmas, Madrid, Murcia, Valencia, Almería, Asturias, Balearic Islands, Jaén, Valladolid, Cáceres, Murcia, Ourense, Salamanca, Seville, Teruel and Zamora.
Part of this fourth prize was distributed by the LaTrece law firm, from Almería, which sold two tenths and distributed 2,200 euros with the tenths that it hides around the city every year and is found by those who successfully solve the clues that studio owners have been in hiding for weeks by donating through social media.
The fifth prizes, eight in total, had an uneven territorial distribution. 62391 was sold in the administrations of Villajoyosa and Benidorm (Alicante), while 43696 distributed the lot in Galdácano (Vizcaya). The 88509 was distributed by Pamplona (Navarre), Manises and Alfara del Patriarca (Valencia), Montgat and Barcelona (Barcelona), Jaén, Madrid, Málaga, Vigo and Illa de Arousa (Pontevedra) and Morón de la Frontera (Seville) . While 38454 fell in Tarragona, Nava (Asturias), Santurtzi and Portugalete (Vizcaya), Santander, San Sebastián, Las Rozas (Madrid), Fuengirola (Málaga), Manises (Valencia), Arroyo de la Encomienda (Valladolid) and Zaragoza. .
Another fifth prize from the Christmas draw, 24492, was less traveled and traveled to Valladolid, Badajoz, Lorca and Fortuna (Murcia). The 79138 was sold entirely in the 494 administration of Madrid, in the Hipercor-Campo de las Naciones shopping center, located at Avenida de los Andes, 50.
The seventh of the eight fifth prizes, 36142, practically remained in Catalonia. The 97 administration of Barcelona had 165 of the 180 series in this issue, which also left pinches in two other administrations of the Catalan capital and in the provinces of Vizcaya, Guipúzcoa, Lleida, Madrid, Murcia, Teruel and Valencia.
Finally, most of the holders of the number 87092 bought their tenths in the administration number 4 of León, 6 of Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña) and 4 of Burjasot (Valencia). Although
This eighth and last fifth prize of this year’s draw, which is now history, was withdrawn in the provinces of Barcelona, Cáceres, Jaén, Madrid, Valencia, Albacete, Alicante, Cádiz, Baleares, Málaga, Murcia , Ourense, Pontevedra, Salamanca, Seville and Valladolid.
