El Grand Prix del verano


El Grand Prix del verano is a Spanish prime-time television summer competition between small towns created by Francesco Boserman and produced by Europroducciones. It was broadcast on La 1 of Televisión Española nationwide for eleven seasons from 1995 to 2005, and on some regional broadcasters of the Federation of Regional Organizations of Radio and Television in their respective regions for three seasons from 2007 to 2009. In summer 2023, TVE resumed the program for one more season, and, due to the good reception, it was confirmed for the summer of 2024, and 2025.
With the same premise as French television show Intervilles, it features mixed teams representing small towns in Spain competing in a series of games –usually funny physical games played in outlandish costumes, though none-the-less technically difficult, but also general knowledge games where mayors and celebrity godparents are put to the test–, some of which involve live heifers. Due to the animal welfare law coming into force in 2023, for season 15 the vaquillas were replaced by an anthropomorphic heifer portrayed by a person in a full-body costume who hindered a team at the request of the opposing team.
The show had a version for children, Peque Prix, a competition between schools that aired on TVE for six seasons between 1998 and 2000 and a special aired on Canal 9 and Telemadrid in 2007. It also had a version for Portugal, Todos Gostam do Verão, which featured Portuguese towns, was filmed in the same studio with the same sets of the Spanish version, and was broadcast for one season on SIC in summer 2009.
On 31 December 2024, a controversy concerning the Grand Prix heifer occurred, when Spanish actress and comic Laura Yustres showed during La 1 emissions of New Year's Eve a picture of the cattle imitating the Sacred Heart.

Hosts

Episodes

Accolades

Tp de Oro

YearCategoryRecipientResultRef.
1995Best PresenterRamón GarcíaNomitated
1996Best PresenterRamón GarcíaNomitated
1997Best PresenterRamón GarcíaNomitated
1998Best PresenterRamón GarcíaNomitated
1999Best PresenterRamón GarcíaNomitated
2003Best PresenterRamón GarcíaNomitated

ATV Awards

YearCategoryRecipientResultRef.
1999Entertainment: varieties and game showsNomitated
2024Best Show Nomitated
2024Best Presenter Ramón GarcíaNomitated
2024Best Direction Gabriela VenturaNomitated
2024Best Camera DirectionValerio BosermanNomitated
2024Best Screenplay Javier Pilar / Carlos SoriaNomitated
2024Best Production Patricia de Orive / Engel Serón / Cristina BenaventeNomitated