places where you have to buy a tenth if you want to win

There is one week left for the most anticipated day of the year. The day of illusion … or health. Next December 22 The Christmas Lottery draw arrives, the famous Gordo, and it is time to collect the last tenths thinking that the children of San Ildefonso sing your number. Now, where to buy it? Well, it is clear that there are places that are touched by a magic wand and others that have not been so lucky in Castilla y León.

Statistics say that the Christmas Lottery has not been very generous with Castilla y León. Throughout history El Gordo has fallen 41 times in this community autonomous. The province that has given the most cava for the first prize has been Salamanca, with seven ‘Gordos’ and in the queue is Ávila, with only one grand prize.

Salamanca, the ‘pretty girl’

Now, if you have the opportunity to buy a tenth in these places in Castilla y León, do it, because it seems that they are touched by luck. Salamanca is the pretty girl. The capital has celebrated the Gordo on several occasions. The most enriching in 2019 in the Lottery Administration of the Carrefour hypermarket. 250 tenths sold out of 26,590, awarded 4 million euros to the series. In total 100 million euros. But luck has also done it in four locations: Béjar, Cepeda, Calvarrasa de Abajo and Cabrillas, which in 2018, took a pinch.

Segovia December 22, 2000 is marked in his memory. That year El Gordo fell entirely and left 46,500 million pesetas thanks to a magic number: 49,740, or what is the same, almost 280 million euros. Administration number 2, located next to the Plaza del Corpus, sold the 155 in full.

In Lion, the first prize has touched five times. Two in the capital and three times the administrations of the province have shared the luck. Now, the small town of Boñar has a love relationship. 32 years ago and in 2014 when he handed out a complete series of the first prize.

Ribera del Duero, magical area

In Burgos capital el ‘Gordo’ has only fallen three times. However, there are two towns, Aranda de Duero and Roa, that have an idyll with this award. For example, in 2012, El Gordo left nine million in this town.

If you go through Zamora You have to go to the Quiruelas de Vidriales bar, 50 kilometers from the capital, because in 2018 they distributed 32 tenths of the Gordo that left almost 13 million euros in the province. That same year, in Puebla de Sanabria a few tenths were also sold. Of course, they were sold to a group of workers on the AVE line

In Palencia, El Gordo has fallen five times. Two in the province and three in the capital. The last one was in 2010 when the number 79,250 left three million euros in the town of Saldaña. Although it has always been said that no one from the town got it, perhaps it was tourists who visited the Roman Villa of La Olmeda who would have won the award. The second time it was awarded the first prize in Palencia was in the distant 1963. The number 19,936 left 37 million of the old pesetas in the town of Venta de Baños.

The Sorians They are among the tenths who play in this draw. And it is that there are many who have hopes placed in this province, point out these places. In 2006 el Gordo left 375 million euros in Almazán and two years later a third distributed 97.5 million in the city of Soria. In 2012 the first prize also fell in Burgo de Osma. Although with pinches also in the capital he played in 2018 and 2008.

Valladolid has received the ‘luck’ of the Gordo of the Christmas Lottery four times. Of course, the first one has to go back very far. 1,821, 200 years later. And it has already rained. In 1984 he would play again and they were up to 12,500 million pesetas (75 million euros) that were distributed throughout the city and the towns of Tordesillas, Íscar and Campaspero. The good news is that many of those millions went to farmers. Then the ‘Gordos’ of 2012 and 2018 would arrive, and in the town of Olmedo also in 2012.

Until a couple of years ago Ávila it was considered the province jinx, since it had never touched. Until 3,347 were sold, four tenths in the municipality of El Barraco 25 kilometers from the capital, that is, they left 1,600,000 euros. In this way, Melilla remains the only territory in Spain that has not uncorked a bottle to celebrate the most exciting prize of Christmas.

The award by provinces

More than 40 times: Madrid (81) and Barcelona (48)

Between 11 and 39 times Valencia (22), Seville (17), Cádiz (16), Malaga (15), Alicante (12), Vizcaya (12) and Zaragoza (12) and Murcia (12).

Up to 10 times

Asturias (10), Cantabria (10), Badajoz (9), Balearic Islands (9), Granada (9), Guipúzcoa (7), Córdoba (7), A Coruña (7), Lugo (7), Burgos (6 ), Navarra (6), Lérida 65), La Rioja (5), Almería (5), Jaén (5), Segovia (5), Las Palmas (5), León (5), Huesca (5), Álava ( 3), Ciudad Real (4), Cuenca (4), Castellón (3), Valladolid (4), Albacete (4), Tenerife (4), Girona (3), Guadalajara (3), Soria (3), Palencia (2), Pontevedra (3), Toledo (3), Cáceres (3), Teruel (1), Salamanca (2), Lanzarote (2) and Huelva (2), Ávila (1), Tarragona (1), Ceuta (1) and Zamora (1).

How much does the Treasury take?

Finally, it must be remembered that the first 40,000 euros of the lottery prizes are exempt from taxation and the remaining amounts are taxed at 20%, that is, the Treasury keeps 20% of those 360,000 euros (the result of subtracting 400,000 euros € minus the 40,000 euros exempt from tax), for which it must be taxed, or what is the same, 72,000 euros for the Tax Agency and 328,000 for the lucky person who plays a tenth that matches the Christmas Lottery Jackpot.

Since lThe first 40,000 euros are exempt from taxationOnly the lucky ones with a tenth of the first three grand prizes, that is, the Fat One, the Second Prize and the Third Prize of the extraordinary Christmas Lottery Draw, will have to give a part of the amount obtained to the Tax Agency.

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