The building housing the hotel is one of the oldest in Lugoj. The hotel dates back to 1835. Initially named “Drei Rosen” (Three Roses), then “Kaiser Gasthaus” (Royal Inn) after the Revolution of 1848-1849, and “Köning von Ungarn” (King of Hungary) during the period of the Austro – Hungarian Dualism, the hotel was named “Dacia” in 1918.

The 1848 Proclamation was written in three colours on the walls of the hotel, and the small chamber on the first floor was the place where medicines and equipments for the Romanian army fighting in Bulgaria in the Independence War of 1877-1878, were collected.

Over the years the hotel has accommodated famous political, cultural, and scientific personalities like Nicolae Iorga, Liviu Rebreanu, Victor Eftimiu, George Enescu, Nicolae Titulescu, Gheorghe Marinescu, Octavian Goga, Zoe Dumitrescu – Buşulenga, Mihai Brediceanu, Corneliu Coposu, and others.