According to chronicles, in la Vega del Escobar, there was a battle between King Ramiro II and the Muslim armies of Abd ar-Rahman III.

In the mid-10^th century, the troops of the King from León pursued the Saracen troops through el Valle del Tormes. The Muslims became strong in what today is known as Santiago del Collado and from then onwards they were pushed to the south by the Christians. In la Vega del Escobar the battle was fought, putting the Muslims in trouble with the troops of the Christian King.

Ramiro, when night fell and observing that the enemy had more men and more resources, he came up with a strategy: he ordered the shepherds to occupy the surrounding area putting a few lit torches on the horns of the cows and sending them towards the place where the Muslims were camping. The Muslims, upon seeing the lights in the middle of the night thinking that it was a big army fled in every direction. King Ramiro, satisfied with the result of deception, ordered that they “turned the cows.” It was from this gesture that the name of the village emerged.

Of this legendary tale, there is no reliable historical testimony, but it is important to point out that it holds great historic value. When the cartographer Don Tomás López, passed through these lands in the 18^th century, the then parish Priest of the village told him of the existence of a latin inscription on top of the pass.

Since 2010, every year on 1^st May the village recreates this battle.