Sodeto is a village in the municipality of

Alberuela de Tubo Alberuela de Tubo is a municipality located in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2009 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 358 inhabitants. Villages *Sodeto, created by the IRYDA in lands formerly belonging to ...

Huesca Huesca (; an, Uesca) is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the autonomous community of Aragon. It is also the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and of the comarca of Hoya de Huesca. In 2009 it had a population of 52,059, almo ...

, Spain. The village was created in 1950 by the ''Instituto Nacional de Colonización y Desarrollo Rural'' (INCDR), in English: National Institute of Rural Development and Colonization. The INCDR was the administrative entity that was established by the Spanish dictatorship in October 1939, shortly after the end of the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, lin ...

, in order to repopulate certain areas of Spain or to bring infertile and arid areas into agricultural production. Sodeto is thus is a planned community. Its lands formerly belonged to the

Duke of Villahermosa Duke of Villahermosa ( es, Duque de Villahermosa) is a hereditary title in the Spanish nobility, peerage of Spain, accompanied by the dignity of Grandee and granted in 1476 by John II of Aragon, John II to Alfonso de Aragón y Escobar, Alfonso d ...

. The population of the village was once about 400, but is now down to about 250. Early in 2012, the village's homeowner association won the largest prize to date in the

Spanish Christmas Lottery The Spanish Christmas Lottery (officially ''Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad'' or simply ''Lotería de Navidad'' ) is a special draw of the Lotería Nacional, the weekly national lottery run by Spain's state-owned Loterías y Apuestas del Esta ...

drawing, a sum of about 750 million Euros. A single ticket was worth 100,000 Euros. Every resident save one had purchased at least one ticket. This feat received a lot of media attention and journalists swamped the village. A year later however, press reports indicate that the enormous amount of prize money didn't make the inhabitants that much happier.See: GQ. The Luckiest Village in the World: https://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201305/spanish-lottery-winners-sodeto?printable=true

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