MADRID — As a crowd gathered at Doña Manolita, a stall in central Madrid that has been selling tickets to the lottery known as El Gordo for over 100 years, employees popped bottles of cava. They had sold a winner.

“I’m very happy. We have worked all year to achieve this. This is our reward, to sell El Gordo,” (the Fat One) said a staff member at Doña Manolita, considered one of the luckiest vendors.

Across Spain, the jackpot climbed to 2.38 billion euros ($2.64 billion) for the country’s annual Christmas lottery, and on Sunday, the celebrating erupted.

The rules of the draw allow for multiple purchases of the same numbers, meaning this year’s winning ticket — 26590 — was sold by kiosks in many cities, including Madrid, Barcelona and Seville. The top prize was 400,000 euros.