The Plovdiv 2019 Foundation is the organisation that prepared the application of Plovdiv for the title European Capital of Culture 2019 and i s handling the implementation of the project. The Tobacco City is a project on the preservation of a vanishing tobacco-industry city and its old warehouses through multi-genre artistic actions, installations, exhibitions and research, implemented by Plovdiv 2019 Foundation as part of the programme of European Capital of Culture 2019. The Plovdiv 2019 Foundation is an Individual Member of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.