 The Château de Maisons was built between the Seine and the forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, with its garden front oriented to the southeast.Originally it comprised the garden, a small park of 33 hectares and a large outer park of 300 hectares.The visitor arrived by one of two avenues that crossed in a T intersection before the gate to the "cour d'honneur" The principal central axis led to the forest, the cross axis through the village to the southwest and to the river, thence on to Paris.