At the end of the war, Balbo's estate was sequestrated by the Government because it was regarded as a profit of the Fascist regime.
Balbo's heirs won the legal action against the Government but the Supreme Court ruling came out only in 1954. Punta Ala remained without any improvement for 10 years.
The heirs, after a long time and a little bitterness, decided to sell the estate. On August the 8th 1959 Balbo's heirs sold the estate to Costantino Lentati to the amount of 390 millions of lira. It included the promontory of Punta Ala and the buildings: Casone, Tartana, Gualdo, Molletta, Tre Pini farm and the castle.
They did not sell Poggio del Barbiere with Torre Hidalgo which is still Balbo's property. The customs road next to Scoglietto, is more similar to a path and runs alongside the pine wood near the sea (through Punta Hidalgo) and reached the little harbour. Near the farm Tre Pini a path forked: the first path arrived at the castle, the other one reached the Customs office, on the extreme side of the isle.
According to the bill sale on March 21st 1960 Punta Ala s.a.s(Company) of Costantino Lentati became Punta Ala S.p.a., whose Head Office was in Milan.
The bill sale listed the goods that Costantino Lentati bought by the Balbos' heirs, it does not include Renaione, of about 17000 square metres. Punta Ala Company paid enough salary to demand the complete avalaibility of its employees, "the Company did not request obedience but faith and enthusiasm."
In these pages, taken from Enrichetta Zetti's second book about Punta Ala, manager for the public relation from February 1st 1962, she describes how she organised parties, plays for young people and adults, hosted foreigners and tourists so as the castle became a refuge and a meeting place where everybody, from the marvellous view, could either read a book, play chess, cards, listen to music, meet friends and take part in discussion or they could watch a film in the cellar of the castle.
"How I miss that beautiful green land which extends from the hills to the see, untouched! How I miss that broad clean beach where the only tracks you can see are left by seagulls laying among the cuttlefish bones!" Some years ago one could meet in the streets of Punta Ala a certain knight: he was tunned, sitting on a horse, and wearing a pair of cut jeans, barefoot and with windswept hair. He loved nature, people and adventure.
He was said to be a poet and a painter. He was a friend of Brandimarte for a long time. Giorgio Romoli likes telling stories which are pleasant to listen to in his shop full of silver and precious objects. The characters of his stories belong to the world of art, fashion and showbusiness, with whom he had a dinner in his hut on the beach, destroyed in 1973 to build the harbour.