The stone building in which the traditional Morfeas guest house is currently situated was built in 1863 by Polychronis Katsanikas, who had worked in Romania, returned and invested his money in Papigo from where he originated.

This mansion house, later on, passed into the hands of his son, Manthos Katsanikas, who was married to Aikaterini Katsanika. Aikaterini was awarded the “Cleanliness and Hospitality Prize”  by the Greek Tourism Organization, during the period in which mandatory provision of rooms to the first tourists of the season, with a corresponding rent, was imposed by law on those who kept mansions in Papigo.

At the time the family rented out two double rooms, the “Matzato” on the ground floor and the “Ontopoulo” upstairs. Manthos Katsanikas, in turn, gave his home to his beloved daughter, Sofia Thoma Katsanika, because she always stayed with him and cared for him even though married and having created her own family. His daughter, had the name of his sister Sophia who had been taken by the rebels and died of starvation in the mountains of Albania because she refused to eat their dirty food out of their dirty cauldrons. This soft spot that he had for his daughter was also because of the fact that she looked very much like her mother (his wife) whom he loved very much and had lost young, just 54 years old.

Manthos Katsanikas fought in Asia Minor war when he was 18 years old as Tsolias and reached Eschis Sheikhr from where he returned to his home country with very few of his co-operatives. Aikaterini Katsanica, his wife, was a Communist and for that she was pursued. Due to his great love for her, he was constantly making up places to hide her in the house, in hatches, in the barn and in the cellar so that they could not find her.