People wait for the start of the draw at Madrid's Teatro Real opera house during Spain's bumper Christmas lottery draw known as El Gordo, or The Fat One, in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Dec. 22, 2023.

Spain's 'El Gordo' Christmas lottery goes to the number 88008 Lucky holders of 20-euro tickets with the number 88008 are celebrating. They have each won 400,000 euros ($440,000), in the top prize ...

FILE - Lottery sellers celebrate in front of their shop after selling a winning ticket of the first prize of Spain's Christmas lottery ''El Gordo'' of calle Aranal de Madrid, on Dec. 22, 2022.

For weeks, Spaniards had anticipated the arrival of "El Gordo" or "The Fat One." Skip to content. Close. Back America's Newspaper. 1. Subscribe. Close Sign in. Sign in Subscribe.

Spain's immensely popular lottery El Gordo - 'the fat one' - distributed a total of 2.6 billion euro (£2.2 billion) in prizes this year, much of it in relatively small sums.

Didn't win Friday? There's always El Niño on Jan. 6. MADRID (MarketWatch) - "Mil euros." If you're here in Madrid on Friday, then you won't go far without hearing one of the kids from the San ...

On Thursday, the winner of the world-famous El Gordo lottery will be announced. The lotto has been held in Spain for more than two centuries, having been founded in 1812, according to The U.S. Sun .

Spain's bumper Christmas lottery "El Gordo" starts dishing out millions of euros in prizes People across Spain are tuning into the television, radio and internet as children from Madrid’s San ...

The Margin Spain’s centuries-old ‘El Gordo’ lottery is handing out nearly $2.9 billion in winnings this year Didn’t win Friday? There’s always El Niño on Jan. 6.

El Gordo is the first prize of Spain’s hugely popular national Christmas lottery, which is said to be the world’s largest based on the total prize money involved, even though other lotteries ...