Place: El Gordo

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Impoverished Spanish city hits the jackpot in El Gordo

With wide smiles, elated lottery winners popped bottles of sparkling wine yesterday in the southern beach city of Roquetas de Mar, where tickets bearing the top prize number in Spain’s Christmas lottery were sold.

Wed, 23 Dec, 2015

Unlucky Spaniard only villager not to share lottery jackpot

A Spanish man is devastated after everyone in his town won the lottery expect him.

Thu, 02 Feb, 2012

One killed in explosion at Spanish weapons factory

An explosion at an arms factory in central Spain used mainly to dismantle cluster bombs killed one person and wounded four others, one of them seriously, today, an official said.

Sat, 02 Jul, 2011

Lotto-crazy Spaniards await world's biggest jackpot

Biting their nails and pacing back and forth, lottery-mad Spaniards could think of little else today as the clock ticked towards the awarding of 236 billion pesetas (£840m) in the biggest payout on Earth.

Sat, 22 Dec, 2001