D'Aguilar Street
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D'Aguilar Street (Chinese: 德己立街, formerly 德忌笠街) is a street in Central of Hong Kong. It is an L-shaped street starting from Queen's Road Central, at Entertainment Building. It runs uphill and meets various featured streets Stanley Street, Wellington Street, Wo On Lane and Lan Kwai Fong in the area. It turns after meeting Lan Kwai Fong and ends at the junction with Wyndham Street, Glenealy and Lower Albert Road near the Fringe Club.
The higher section of D'Aguilar Street, together with Lan Kwai Fong, is famous site for night life in Hong Kong. Foreign restaurants and bars can be found in the area.
D'Aguilar Street is named after George Charles D'Aguilar, Major General and Lieutenant Governor of Hong Kong, at the very beginning of colonial Hong Kong. D'Aguilar Street is also the location of the clinic of Filipino national hero Jose Rizal who lived in Hong Kong briefly in the 1890s.
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