60 lost Christmas lottery tickets reunited with owner after discovery in Barcelona

Sixty lost Spanish Christmas lottery tickets, known as dècims, have been reunited with their owner after being found on a bench in Barcelona.

At €20 each, the 60 dècims were worth €1,200 in total, though a winning number could pay up to €400,000 per dècim for Spain’s famed top prize, El Gordo.

The tickets were discovered on December 3 in the Eixample district by a passerby who called the 112 emergency line. Local police retrieved the bag, which had a name written on it, from the scene.

The city's Lost Property Office then traced the details until they located the rightful owner, who lives in a town in Cantabria, over 500 km from Barcelona. The tickets were safely returned.

Buying multiple dècims is a long-standing tradition in Spain, allowing people to share the Christmas lottery and the chance at the El Gordo prize with family, friends or colleagues.

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