Hong Kong Park
Former British military barracks turned lush urban park, with a colonial mansion now housing a teaware museum.
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This guide to Hong Kong Park traces Flagstaff House, the colonial mansion across the lawn, back to its construction for Major-General George Charles D'Aguilar in the young British colony's earliest years. It follows the mansion through the Japanese occupation after Hong Kong fell in December 1941, when an invading commandant moved into the shelled, hastily repaired building, and through the decades after as British commanders lived there until 1978. Listen for how these gardens began life as Victoria Barracks, named for the queen.
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