José Ramiro de la Puente y González Nandín, Marqués de Alta Villa sometimesAltavilla^[1] (28 April 1845 in Reina del Bétis, Séville – 16 December 1909 inMadrid) was a Spanish grande and writer on Madrid, exiled for much of the later part of his life in Paris.

He acquired the château of Savigny-sur-Orge on the death of the former owner maréchale Davout, and there received from 1869 to 1876 the court ofIsabella II in exile. He also frequented the Queen's own property, the former Hôtel Basilewski on avenue Kléber, renamed the Palais de Castille, which was the centre of the Bourbon Spanish exile community in Paris. Increasingly he came to serve as a powerful secretary to the exiled court of Queen.^[2] It was during this period, he became interested in various topics such as agricultural science, opera singing, as well as continuing more conventional aristocratic pursuits such as fencing and hunting. The Queen returned to Spain in 1874-1876 following the Bourbon restoration of her sonAlfonso XII but Alta Villa continued to serve the Queen in Paris.

He was granted the papal title of marchese de Alta Villa delCasale Monferrato Piedmont, on October 9, 1880.

He was a noted fencer andespadachín^[3] and wrote the preface forC. Leon Broutin's guideEl arte de la esgrima of 1894.

He took music lessons fromGiovanni Lucantoni and singing lessons fromAnna de La Grange andMadame Ferrari.

• Don Ramiro de la Puente y González Nandín.Guía oficial de España 1904

• 1845 births
• 1909 deaths
• Writers from Seville
• 19th-century Spanish writers
• 19th-century Spanish male writers
• Spanish male fencers