Spanish town revels in lottery jackpot
The fat man came early and jolly in Spain’s Christmas lottery, showering €512.5m in winnings on a town with the bite-size name of Vic.
The sweepstakes known as El Gordo – the Fat One – spread a total of €2bn in Christmas cheer around Spain today, much of it on this Barcelona-area town of 30,000 that is more routinely associated with churches and convents. All 1,700 first-prize tickets were sold by one lottery office in Vic.
