San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Cross port Y Counted son the most fortunate municipalities of the Canary Islands with the ‘Gordo‘ of Extraordinary Christmas Lottery Draw, with the first prize falling up to three times in these locations.
While, The Gran Canarian palms, Arrecife, Santa Cruz of Tenerife, Granadilla de Abona Y Los Realejos have received the ‘Gordo’ in Two occasions.
Outside the archipelago, the autonomous city of Melilla is the only region in Spain where the first prize has never fallen.or 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.
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 the Zamora of Puebla de Sanabria and Quiruelas de Vidriales, and Zamora capital.
The ranking of the luckiest places is still led one more year by the city of Madrid, where the ‘Gordo’ has relapsed a total of 80 occasions in the more than 200 years of history of the traditional draw, the last one 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 graced 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.
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 (Gran Canaria), Cross port (Tenerife), Counted (Gran Canaria), 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).
He has also dropped the first prize twice in Alora (Málaga), Marbella (Málaga), Ronda (Málaga), Cartagena (Murcia), San Pedro del Pinatar (Murcia), Yecla (Murcia), Pontevedra, Vigo, The Gran Canarian palms, Arrecife (Lanzarote), Cepeda (Salamanca), Santa Cruz of 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 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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