Vic (also known as Vich in old Catalan) is the capital of the comarca of Osona, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Its geographic location, only 69 km from Barcelona and 60 km from Girona, has made the city one of the most important of central Catalonia. On 2005-12-22, the inhabitants of the city won about 500 million euros in the Spanish Christmas Lottery.http://web.archive.org/web/20060116074911/http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/12/22/spain.lottery.ap/index.html Spanish town wins big in lottery, CNN, December 22, 2005.