Barvaux-sur-Ourthe is a village in the municipality of Durbuy in Wallonia, Belgium.
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With a traditional farming history going back hundreds of years, after World War II it became a vibrant tourist destination, often visited in conjunction with Durbuy, the "so called" smallest city in the world.
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Along the line to the south-west is the station of Melreux-Hotton and to the north-east is the station of Bomal.
After the occupation of the lands on the Rhine’s left bank by French Revolutionary troops in 1794 and the French annexation of the Austrian Netherlands between 1795 and 1797, Steffeln became the seat of a mairie (“mayoralty”) in the Canton of Kronenburg, the Arrondissement of Malmedy and the Department of Ourthe, whose seat was in Liège.