Cadiz is one of the Andalusian cities most favored by the extraordinary Christmas drawing of the national lottery, since the ‘Gordo’ has fallen on her 12 times in the entire history of the draw, according to data from State Lotteries and Gambling. After Cádiz, the capital is Seville, winner seventeen times, and Malaga, awarded the biggest prize of the Christmas Lottery ten times.
In this framework, the province accumulates 22 awards fallen in nine localities and 12 in the capital Cádiz and three in Algeciras; They are followed by Málaga, which accumulates 26 “Gordos” in its province in 14 cities, highlighting Málaga with ten and Álora, Marbella and Ronda with two each; Seville has 23 in seven municipalities, 17 in the capital; Granada, 16 in eight locations, including nine in the capital and two in Almuñécar, and Córdoba, with 12 “Gordos” in nine locations, including four in the capital.
In Jaén he fell ten times in nine locations, none in the capital and twice in Linares; Almería has been embellished seven times in five localities, two in Almería and two more in El Ejido, while Huelva has six “Gordos” in five municipalities, one in the capital and two in Ayamonte. Last year, this municipality in Huelva was the only one in Andalusia to receive this award.
Nationally, Cádiz is in seventh place
In the national framework, the ranking of the luckiest places continues to be led for another year by the city of Madrid, where the Gordo fell a total of 82 times in the more than 200-year history of the traditional draw. Behind her are Barcelona with 42, Sevilla with 17, Bilbao (14), Valencia (13), Zaragoza (13) and Cadiz (12), which occupies seventh place. Of all of them, Only in Madrid did the ‘Gordo’ fall in last year’s draw.
Similarly, in Malaga the top prize fell on ten occasions; Santander, Alicante and Granada, nine times; La Coruña, San Sebastián and Gijón, in seven; Palma de Mallorca, in six; Badajoz, Lugo and Manises (Valencia), in five, and Murcia, Vic (Barcelona), Sort (Lérida), Córdoba, Valladolid, Burgos, Pamplona, Salamanca and Teruel, in four.
The first prize fell three times in Algeciras (Cádiz)as well as in Albacete, Casas Ibáñez (Albacete), Benidorm (Alicante), Oviedo, Sabadell (Barcelona), Carballo (La 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), Boñar (León), San Pedro del Pinatar (Murcia), Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife), Vigo, Cáceres, Teruel and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, landscaped in 2021.
On two occasions, “El Gordo” was distributed in Almería, El Ejido (Almería), Almuñécar (Granada), Ayamonte (Huelva) and Linares (Jaén), as well as in Vitoria, Elche (Alicante), Avilés, Nava (Asturias) , Granollers (Barcelona), Sant Quirze del Vallés (Barcelona), Coria (Cáceres), Castellón, Ciudad Real, Santiago de Compostela, Cuenca, Belmonte (Cuenca), León, Lérida, Vilalba (Lugo), Alcorcón (Madrid), Collado Villalba (Madrid), Leganés (Madrid) and San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid).
The first prize also fell twice in Alora (Málaga), Marbella (Málaga) and Ronda (Málaga), as well as in Cartagena (Murcia), Yecla (Murcia), Pontevedra, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Arrecife (Las Palmas) , Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Los Realejos (Tenerife), Soria, Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), O Porriño (Pontevedra), Alcira (Valencia), Zamora, San Vicente del Raspeig (Alicante) and Derio (Vizcaya).
Of the provincial capitals, it fell only once in Guadalajara, Huelva and Orense, although it also fell in other major cities in a historic moment, such as Salou (Tarragona) in 2019.
