Spain Christmas Lottery Winners

People celebrate after winning a portion the main prize of Spain's Christmas lottery with the number 79250 in Palleja, Spain, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. Spain's beloved Christmas lottery known as "El Gordo" (The Fat One) spread euro2.3 billion ($3 billion) in holiday cheer Wednesday in a country facing 20 percent unemployment. This year, the top prize known, like the lottery itself, as El Gordo went to the number 79250. Tickets bearing that number were sold in the Madrid area, Barcelona, Alicante in the east and other cities ranging from the Basque region in the north to Tenerife in the Canary Islands

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